Titlebook: Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz; Sovereign Power and William McClellan Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Chau

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Second Movement: Destitution of the Subject, by sovereign indifference. This section of the tale rehearses the vicissitudes of her life of exile, including trial for murder, rescue through God’s intervention, marriage to the king of Northumbria, his desertion, another trial, and again exile, this time with a child. The analysis of these scene

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Third Movement: Return and Restitution, reconciles with her erstwhile husband, the king, and her father, the Emperour of Rome. The analysis reveals the way Chaucer employs a series of gestural expressions to disclose Custance’s conflicting emotions toward her husband and her unwavering obedience to her father. It is argued that in these

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Book 2016matically 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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Book 2016aucer. 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 .M.an of Law’s Tale., widely regarded as one of Chaucer’s

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Third Movement: Return and Restitution,final scenes Chaucer depicts in the meeting of Custance with her father what may be considered the primal ontological dilemma of the political subject. He shows her willingly enacting her subjection to sovereign power, and this despite the traumatic and painful experience she has endured because of the sovereign’s earlier abandonment.

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