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Article: Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the 'Canterbury Tales'.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2007
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Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the 'Canterbury Tales'. By MARK MILLER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. x + 289 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-84236-5.
The title of Mark Miller's book Philosophical Chaucer has the promise of taking the reader to the heart of Chaucer's poetry, but it quickly becomes clear that the intellectual giants of Miller's universe take us in a direction remote from the ideas and (hardly less importantly) the cultural ethos of Chaucer's universe. Thus we find in the index references to Foucault and Nietzsche, but not one to Avicenna, the great authority on the interior senses for Aquinas and the later ...