El control de los cuerpos en The Physician's Tale y The Wife of Bath's Tale, de Geoffrey Chaucer (c
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Additional title: The control of the bodies in The Physician's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
Additional title: O controle dos corpos em The Physician's Tale e The Wife of Bath's Tale, de Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
Date: 2019
Abstract: En Una historia del cuerpo en la Edad Media (2005), Jacques Le Goff y Nicolas Truong señalan que las oscilaciones entre rechazo y exaltación, entre humillación y veneración, atraviesan el cuerpo cristiano medieval. En consonancia con este enfoque, nuestra ponencia se propone examinar dos cuentos pertenecientes a The Canterbury Tales, de Geoffrey Chaucer. En ellos se vislumbran los conflictos entre la vejez y la juventud, articulados principalmente en torno de los ideales de virginidad y castidad, que ponen de manifiesto los vínculos entre el erotismo y el control sobre los cuerpos. Ambos relatos establecen un contrapunto entre dos modelos de mujer. The Physician's Tale ofrece una perspectiva paradigmática de las virtudes físicas y psíquicas de una joven, y revela el valor absoluto otorgado a la virginidad. En The Wife of Bath's Tale, en cambio, el asunto artúrico y la estructura de la quest se pondrán al servicio del análisis de las relaciones de poder entre vejez/fealdad y juventud/belleza, en íntima relación con el Prólogo que lo precede, centrado en la noción moderna de experiencia.
Abstract: In Una historia del cuerpo en La Edad Media (2005), Jacques Le Goff and Nicolas Truong point out that the oscillations between rejection and exaltation, humiliation and veneration, cross the medieval Christian body. In line with this approach, our paper aims to examine two stories belonging to The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, in which the conflicts between old age and youth are glimpsed, articulated mainly around the ideals of virginity and chastity, which reveal the links between eroticism and control over bodies. Both stories will establish a counterpoint between two models of women. The Physician's Tale offers a paradigmatic perspective of the physical and psychic virtues of a young woman and reveals the absolute value given to virginity. On the other hand, in The Wife of Bath's Tale the Arthurian subject and the structure of the quest will serve the analysis of the power relationships between oldness / ugliness and youth / beauty, in intimate relation with the Prologue that precedes it, focused on the modern notion of experience.
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Language: Castellà
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject: Control sobre el cuerpo ; Cuentos de Canterbury ; Asunto artúrico ; Literatura de la Edad Media ; Control over the body ; Canterbury tales ; Arthurian subject ; Literature of the Middle Ages
Published in: Mirabilia, Núm. 28 (jan-jun 2019) , p. 215-226 (Special issue) , ISSN 1676-5818

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