El. knyga: Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales

The question of the dramatic principle in the Canterbury Tales, of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucers work. Drawing on ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and social theory, Leicester proposes that Chaucer can lead us beyond the impasses of contemporary literary theory and suggests new approaches to questions of agency, representation, and the gendered imagination.Leicester reads the Canterbury Tales as radically voiced and redefines concepts like self and character in the light of current discussions of language and subjectivity. He argues for Chaucers disenchanted practical understanding of the constructed character of the self, gender, and society, building his case through close readings of the Pardoners, Wife of Baths, and Knights tales. His study is among the first major treatments of Chaucers poetry utilizing the techniques of contemporary literary theory and provides new models for reading the poems while revising many older views of them and of Chaucers relation to his age.The question of the dramatic principle in the Canterbury Tales