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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Ohio State Univ Pr
Publication date
April 20, 2015
Pages
225
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780814212783
ISBN-10
0814212786
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$62.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire. Beyond the many pilgrimsâ stories taking desire as their topic, Elizabeth Scala argues that desire operates in structurally significant ways found in the signifying chains that link the tales to each other.
Desire in the Canterbury Tales coordinates the compulsions of desire with the act of misreading to define the driving force of Chaucerâs story collection. With Chaucerâs competitive pilgrimage as an important point of departure, this study examines the collectionâs manner of generating stories out of division, difference, and contestation. It argues that Chaucerâs tales are produced as misreadings and misrecognitions of each other. Looking to the main predicate of the General Prologueâs famous opening sentence (Âlongenâ) as well as the thematic concerns of a number of tale-tellers, and working with a theoretical model that exposes language as the product of such longing, Scala posits desire as the very subject of the Canterbury Tales and misrecognition as its productive effect. In chapters focusing on both the well-discussed tales of fragment 1 and the marriage group as well as the more recalcitrant religious stories, Desire in the Canterbury Tales offers a comprehensive means of accounting for Chaucerâs poem.
Desire in the Canterbury Tales coordinates the compulsions of desire with the act of misreading to define the driving force of Chaucerâs story collection. With Chaucerâs competitive pilgrimage as an important point of departure, this study examines the collectionâs manner of generating stories out of division, difference, and contestation. It argues that Chaucerâs tales are produced as misreadings and misrecognitions of each other. Looking to the main predicate of the General Prologueâs famous opening sentence (Âlongenâ) as well as the thematic concerns of a number of tale-tellers, and working with a theoretical model that exposes language as the product of such longing, Scala posits desire as the very subject of the Canterbury Tales and misrecognition as its productive effect. In chapters focusing on both the well-discussed tales of fragment 1 and the marriage group as well as the more recalcitrant religious stories, Desire in the Canterbury Tales offers a comprehensive means of accounting for Chaucerâs poem.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Ohio State Univ Pr (April 20, 2015)
9780814212783 | details & prices | 225 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $62.95
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About: Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire.
Cdr edition from Ohio State Univ Pr (April 20, 2015)
9780814293836 | details & prices | 248 pages | List price $14.95
About: Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire.
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Paperback
Reprint edition from Ohio State Univ Pr (March 18, 2016)
9780814251997 | details & prices | List price $27.95
About: Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire.
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Cassette/Spoken Word
With Leo Tolstoy |
from Random House (October 1, 1989); titled "Anna Karenina"
9780394299464 | details & prices | List price $14.95
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This edition also contains Anna Karenina
About: A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time.
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