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Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz

Sovereign Power and Bare Life

William Mcclellan

Palgrave Macmillan
Collection: The New Middle Ages
Publication date : 2016-11-04

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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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William McClellan

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Palgrave Macmillan

Collection

The New Middle Ages

Publication date

2016-11-04

Pages

123 pages

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9781137565440

Language

English

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