Father ChaucerPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0001
Samantha Katz Seal
{"title":"Sexual Exegetics and the Female Text","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 argues that paternity’s claims to authority were undermined by the inherent doubts associated with siring offspring. The inability for a man to know his children to be his own with certainty epitomized the divine limitations that had been placed upon men’s cognition. There was no perfect reciprocity between sign and meaning within a fallen world; men were forced to acquiesce to a semiotics of doubt and insufficiency. Chaucer explores these themes within the Manciple’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale. In the former he writes affirmations of paternal certainty out of his source texts, and in the latter he depicts the search of a husband for cognitive certainty, a search that condemns the man’s wife, Griselda, to torturous scrutiny. Chaucer concludes that men must simply live with their own doubt, for doubt is a reminder to man that he is human, that true authority belongs to God alone.","PeriodicalId":364900,"journal":{"name":"Father Chaucer","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125400364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Father ChaucerPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0006
Samantha Katz Seal
{"title":"Father Chaucer’s Heirs","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In conclusion to this book, Chapter 6 looks at the Middle Ages’ model of reproductive perfection—fathers producing sons—to identify how even in the most ideal of circumstances, men cannot gain a true authority upon the earth. For from the Monk’s Tale to the Knight’s Tale to the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Chaucer makes men confront how poorly they resemble the quality of their fathers. Each generation becomes a siring of loss, a gradual descent into something worse than its progenitor. And yet, Chaucer agues, there is nothing else for men within the world. To reproduce in the pursuit of authority is a doomed quest, one that he himself will repent of in the Retractions. But there is nothing more human than the desire to create something that will last beyond one’s death, to hope in a future posterity even knowing the odds against its realization.","PeriodicalId":364900,"journal":{"name":"Father Chaucer","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128772707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Father ChaucerPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0004
Samantha Katz Seal
{"title":"Adultery’s Heirs","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The desire to produce in excess, and multiply profits exponentially, haunts the reproductive episodes of The Canterbury Tales. Instead, Chaucer argues, procreation and production should be grounded within sufficiency; men and women should only to seek to generate if they can do so from a place of contentment with their current state. Greed and the desire for multiplication become particularly prominent issues in tales of adultery, such as the Reeve’s Tale and Merchant’s Tale, and tales of human avarice, including the Summoner’s Tale and the Pardoner’s Tale. These are inappropriate modes of generation, Chaucer demonstrates, leading men to lose rather than to gain authority.","PeriodicalId":364900,"journal":{"name":"Father Chaucer","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122178731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Father ChaucerPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0003
Samantha Katz Seal
{"title":"Uncertain Labor","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 approaches reproduction from the medieval scientific perspective of two contraries coming together, with the active male spirit working upon the passive female matter. Analyzing the Second Nun’s Tale and the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, this chapter explores the way in which Chaucer imagined alternative strategies of conception. In the former, the Second Nun calls upon the Virgin Mary to partner her in a devotional practice of production; in the latter, the Canon and his Yeoman both attempt to create without the necessary contraries, bringing similar materials together in failed alchemical experiments that are distinguished by the queerness of their reproductive strategy. There are ways, Chaucer writes, to turn human labor into an authoritative generation, but one must partner with God in order to effect this triumph.","PeriodicalId":364900,"journal":{"name":"Father Chaucer","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121570198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Father ChaucerPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0005
Samantha Katz Seal
{"title":"Almost Heirs","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 approaches the obstacle that daughters posed to male reproductive authority. Daughters, in their limited resemblance to their fathers, became an embodiment of “unlikeness,” terrifying doubles of men who could neither disown them, marry them, nor accept them fully as their heirs. Analyzing the Man of Law’s Tale, this chapter argues that Chaucer’s heroine, Custance, moves through the consequences of her own unlikeness, as the men and women around her are challenged to improve their capacity for perception. It is only when Custance has a son of her own that she can finally be recognized by father and husband alike, and therefore reintegrated into her own lineage. Analogy thus becomes the dominant intellectual desire within this story, replacing the longing for certainty that was tied to men’s production of sons. The chapter concludes by noting that the Man of Law himself claims that while he cannot serve as Chaucer’s heir, perhaps he could serve as an analogous reminder of his poetic talent.","PeriodicalId":364900,"journal":{"name":"Father Chaucer","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114250877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Father ChaucerPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0002
Samantha Katz Seal
{"title":"The Uneasy Institution","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832386.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 addresses the idea of male lineage as a stable, intergenerational source of authority for medieval men. Continuing the argument of the book as a whole, it argues that Chaucer seeks to shake men’s faith in such modes of earthly power, deploying the Wife of Bath to undermine the system of lineage itself. The Wife intrudes into typical models of male heredity, criticizes the linear male temporality upon which lineage depends, and has the hag of her Tale offer a speech against the very mechanisms of male descent and likeness. This chapter also contrasts the Wife of Bath’s Tale to the ballad, the Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter, arguing that while the scene of rape in each is very similar, the Wife of Bath renders her narrative deliberately less procreative in its orientation. Finally, the chapter argues that Chaucer also has the Wife of Bath attack modes of poetic genealogy, alienating poets from their literary forebears.","PeriodicalId":364900,"journal":{"name":"Father Chaucer","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128747916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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