Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales are rife with issues of mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other – conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones, dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of “shadow” chapters that speak to or against the four “central” chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.
By:
Becky Renee McLaughlin
Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 155mm,
Weight: 571g
ISBN: 9781501518416
ISBN 10: 1501518410
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Pages: 303
Publication Date: 20 July 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Acknowledgements Introduction, or A Long Preamble to a Tale Chapter 1. The Prick of the Prioress, or Hysteria and Its Humors Chapter 2. Portrait of the Hysteric as a Young Girl Chapter 3. Masochist as Miscreant Minister: The Parable of the Pardoner’s Perverse Performance Chapter 4. Confessing Animals Chapter 5. Before There Was Sade, There Was Chaucer: Sadistic Sensibility in the Tales of the Man of Law, the Clerk, and the Physician Chapter 6. Sadomasochism for (Neurotic) Dummies Chapter 7. The Reeve’s Paranoid Eye, or The Dramatics of ""Bleared"" Sight Chapter 8. Farting and Its (Dis)contents, or Call Me Absolon Chapter 9: Retractor Bibliography Index"
Becky Renee McLaughlin, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.
