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Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 55) by Mark Miller, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Rita Copeland is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended meditation 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."--Jacket.

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Author
Mark Miller, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Rita Copeland
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9780511483363
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry

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