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Mark
Miller.
Philosophical
Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales.
Cambridge
U.P., 2005.
Cambridge
Studies in Medieval Literature, No. 55.
ISBN-10:
0521842360 | ISBN-13: 9780521842365.
Hardback.
228 x
152 mm.
302pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £45.00
Mark Miller’s innovative
study argues that Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales represent an extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and
practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer’s interests can
help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing about his
explorations of love, sex, and gender. Partly through fresh readings of
the Consolation of Philosophy
and the Romance of the Rose,
Miller charts Chaucer’s relation to the association in the Christian
West between problems of autonomy and problems of sexuality, and
reconstructs how medieval philosophers and poets approached
psychological phenomena often thought of as the exclusive province of
psychoanalysis. The literary experiments of the Canterbury Tales represent a
distinctive philosophical achievement that remains vital to our own
attempts to understand agency, desire, and their histories.
Contents:
Introduction: Chaucer and the problem of normativity; 1. Naturalism and
its discontents in the Miller’s Tale; 2. Normative longing in the
Knight’s Tale; 3. Agency and dialectic in the Consolation of
Philosophy; 4. Sadomasochism and utopia in the Roman de la Rose; 5.
Suffering love in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale; 6. Love’s
promise: the Clerk’s Tale and the scandal of the unconditional;
Bibliography.
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