Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 10136
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Cramer , Patricia.
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  • Title: Lordship, Bondage, and the Erotic: The Psychological Bases of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" [The author offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of "The Clerk's Tale," questioning readings of the story which see Walter and Griselda as an "ideal" Oedipal couple. She further attempts to invalidate Oedipal resolutions by revealing their negative psyc
  • Source: JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89, 4 (October 1990): Pages 491 - 511.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Clerk's Tale Eroticism Feminist Theory Gender in Literature Literature- Verse Lordship Psychological Approach Sexuality in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Xavier University
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  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 03636941