Sacrifice Your Love : Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer.
Title:
Sacrifice Your Love : Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer.
Author:
Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
ISBN:
9780816691913
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Series:
Medieval Cultures ; v.v. 31
Medieval Cultures
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Sacrifice in Theory -- 1. Becoming Medieval: Psychoanalysis and Historicism -- 2. "My Worldes Blisse": Courtly Interiority in The Book of the Duchess -- 3. The Ninety-six Tears of Chaucer's Monk -- 4. Sacrificial Desire in Chaucer's Knight's Tale -- 5. Loving Thy Neighbor: The Legend of Good Women -- 6. "Oure Owen Wo to Drynke": Dying Inside in Troilus and Criseyde -- Epilogue. Some Thoughts on the Humanities: Enjoying the Middle Ages -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment-that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today and beyond.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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