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The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales Paperback - 1990
by Leicester, H. Marshall
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- Title The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales
- Author Leicester, H. Marshall
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good+
- Pages 468
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 1990-06-22
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 201817
- ISBN 9780520068339 / 0520068335
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.99 x 1.22 in (22.86 x 15.21 x 3.10 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Self in literature, Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89005143
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.1
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From the rear cover
"Leicester performs a full-scale revision of the 'dramatic way of reading Chaucer, ' the 'character-oriented, dramatic approaches' that continue to underlie many (perhaps most) current readings of Chaucer. His well-articulated approach to the Tales is informed by immersion in and understanding of current literary-critical theory. In fact, he makes an important intervention in critical theory (certainly in medieval literary criticism) in his project of 'recovering the subject' and theorizing its agency after the evacuation of individual subjectivity by structuralism. He operates in the knowledge that the human subject is a construct, however, a knowledge that structuralism provided; Leiscester's is thus best understood as a 'post-structuralist acitivity.' Along the way, he does brilliant close readings of thee major Tales--the Wife of Bath's, Pardoner's, and Knight's--and the General Prologue. Very few writers have asked of and gotten so much from Chaucer's texts."--Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Chaucer's Sexual Politics
"A brilliant study of the nature of human subjectivity in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It responds to some controversial issues in Chaucer criticism and to relevant questions in modern psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and sociological theories of the self. It contributes to both Chaucer studies and modern theory by giving rich, nuanced, and fruitful readings of three tales. . . . Leicester's interpretations of the poems are original and compelling. Having read them, I find them indispensable."--Judith Ferster, author of Chaucer on Interpretation
"A brilliant study of the nature of human subjectivity in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It responds to some controversial issues in Chaucer criticism and to relevant questions in modern psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and sociological theories of the self. It contributes to both Chaucer studies and modern theory by giving rich, nuanced, and fruitful readings of three tales. . . . Leicester's interpretations of the poems are original and compelling. Having read them, I find them indispensable."--Judith Ferster, author of Chaucer on Interpretation