Del 71 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in The Canterbury Tales

"Wild" Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvBecky Renee McLaughlin

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-20
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt608 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 71 i Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Antal sidor303
FörlagDe Gruyter
ISBN9781501518416

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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