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Record Number:
1761
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Newton , Allyson.
Contributor(s):
Title:
The Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 63 - 75.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Clerk's Tale
Griselda (Literary Figure)
Literature- Verse
Mothers in Literature
Patriarchy in Literature
Women in Literature
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
Related Resources:
Allyson Newton brings a Lacanian perspective to her analysis of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale." She argues that the story exposes a deep-rooted anxiety in patriarchy which perceived a threat inherent in the mother's role in ensuring succession. Men feared matern
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Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" charts an anxious trajectory set by Aristotelian and Aquinian theories of motherhood, in which the paternal structures of lineage and succession appropriate , and thereby occlude, the role of the mother. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing.]
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Author's Affiliation:
Asbury College
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815323417
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