Philosophical Chaucer
Subtitle: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521842365
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Tales, Medieval; Literary Criticism; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Philosophy, Medieval, in literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Christian pilgrims and pilgrim; d. 1400; Reference; Canterbury tales; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; History and criticism; Philosophy
First sentence: One of the strangest moments in the Miller's Tale is the one in which Absolon, who has been waiting in the dark at Alisoun's window for a long-anticipated kiss, finds himself savoring the taste not of her mouth but of the "hole" she has so unceremoniously proffered.