Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in The Canterbury Tales

"Wild" Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller

AvBecky Renee McLaughlin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del 71 i serien Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Antal sidor:303
Förlag:De Gruyter
ISBN:9781501518416

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Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Dramatik inom Skönlitteratur
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Mer om författaren

Becky McLaughlin is an associate professor of English at the University of South Alabama, where she teaches critical theory, film, and gender studies.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction, or A Long Preamble to a TaleChapter 1. The Prick of the Prioress, or Hysteria and Its HumorsChapter 2. Portrait of the Hysteric as a Young GirlChapter 3. Masochist as Miscreant Minister: The Parable of the Pardoner’s Perverse PerformanceChapter 4. Confessing AnimalsChapter 5. Before There Was Sade, There Was Chaucer: Sadistic Sensibility in the Tales of the Man of Law, the Clerk, and the PhysicianChapter 6. Sadomasochism for (Neurotic) DummiesChapter 7. The Reeve’s Paranoid Eye, or The Dramatics of "Bleared" SightChapter 8. Farting and Its (Dis)contents, or Call Me AbsolonChapter 9: RetractorBibliographyIndex