Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales
by Mark Miller 2021-05-27 03:09:55
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While most Chaucer critics interested in gender and sexuality have used psychoanalytic theory to analyze Chaucer''s poetry, Mark Miller re-examines the links between sexuality and the philosophical analysis of agency in medieval texts such as the Can... Read more
While most Chaucer critics interested in gender and sexuality have used psychoanalytic theory to analyze Chaucer''s poetry, Mark Miller re-examines the links between sexuality and the philosophical analysis of agency in medieval texts such as the Canterbury Tales, Boethius''s Consolation of Philosophy, and the Romance of the Rose. Chaucer''s philosophical sophistication provides the basis for a new interpretation of the emerging notions of sexual desire and romantic love in the late Middle Ages. Less
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Mark Miller worked for the United States Bowling Congress and its predecessors for more than twenty-four years. He is an authority on bowling past and present, having been called the "Fountain of Bowl...
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