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Reading Chaucer after Auschwitz : sovereign power and bare life
- 作者： McClellan, William, author.
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- 其他題名：
- New middle ages.
- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： The new middle ages
- 主題： Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 , Power (Philosophy) in literature. , Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence. , Literature. , Medieval Literature. , British and Irish Literature. , Literary Theory. , Cultural Theory. , Poetry and Poetics. , European Literature.
- ISBN： 9781137548795 (electronic bk.) 、 9781137565440 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Chapter 1 Political Chaucer -- Chapter 2 The Man of Law's Tale: Sovereign Abandonment of the Subject -- Chapter 3 First Movement: Marriage and Exile -- Chapter 4 Second Movement: Destitution of the Subject -- Chapter 5 Third Movement: Return and Restitution -- Chapter 6 Interpretation: Critique of Sovereign and the Exemplarity of the Suffering Subject -- Works Cited -- Index -- Notes.
- 摘要註: Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably changes how we read literature from the past. McClellan gives a thoroughgoing reading of the Man of Law's Tale, widely regarded as one of Chaucer's most difficult tales, interpreting it as a meditation on the horrors of sovereign power. He shows how Chaucer, through the figuration of Custance, dramatically depicts the destructive effects of power on the human subject. McClellan's intervention, which he calls "reading-history-as-ethical-meditation," places reception history in the context of a reception ethics and holds the promise of changing the way we read traditional texts.
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- 系統號： 005373797 | 機讀編目格式
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