Sacrifice your love : psychoanalysis, historicism, Chaucer /
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.
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Medieval cultures ;
v. 31. |
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Table of 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.