Philosophical Chaucer

Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales

By:

Mark Miller

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation 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 position in relation to the association in the Christian West between problems of autonomy and problems of sexuality and reconstructs how medieval philosophers and literary writers approached psychological phenomena often thought of as distinctively modern. 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.

Author Biography:

Mark Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Release date NZ

January 29th, 2009

Author

Mark Miller

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

304

Series

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780521100663

Product ID

2839719

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