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Sacrifice your love : psychoanalysis, historicism, Chaucer / L.O. Aranye Fradenburg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953-
- Series:
- Medieval cultures ; v. 31.
- Medieval cultures ; v. 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and history--England--History--To 1500.
- Literature and history.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--England.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Poetry--Psychological aspects.
- Poetry.
- Historicism in literature.
- Psychology in literature.
- Love in literature.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Knowledge--Psychology.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9191-6
- OCLC:
- 191935377
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