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Desire in the Canterbury Tales Elizabeth Scala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scala, Elizabeth, 1966-
- Series:
- Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Desire in literature.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mobility and contestation
- "We witen nat what thing we preyen heere": desire, knowledge, and the ruse of satisfaction in The knight's tale
- Misreading like the reeve
- Symptoms of desire in Chaucer's wives and clerks
- Disfigurements of desire in Chaucer's religious tales
- Conclusion: Reading and misreading Chaucer.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8142-7380-7
- OCLC:
- 906228728
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