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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552765003321

Autore

Scala Elizabeth <1966->

Titolo

Desire in the Canterbury Tales / Elizabeth Scala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

0-8142-7380-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

Desire in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Mobility and contestation -- "We witen nat what thing we preyen heere": desire, knowledge, and the ruse of satisfaction in The knight's tale -- Misreading like the reeve -- Symptoms of desire in Chaucer's wives and clerks -- Disfigurements of desire in Chaucer's religious tales -- Conclusion: Reading and misreading Chaucer.