Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”: “Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller...

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Becky Renee McLaughlin

Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”

“Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller

Becky Renee McLaughlin

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English

De Gruyter
18 July 2022

Anthologies (non-poetry); Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Sociology: sexual relations

Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales are rife with issues of mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other – conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones, dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of “shadow” chapters that speak to or against the four “central” chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.

By: Becky Renee McLaughlin
Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781501527265
ISBN 10: 1501527266
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Pages: 303
Publication Date: 18 July 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Becky Renee McLaughlin, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.