From “Woman as Thing” to a “Subject-In-Process”: The Dynamics of Courtly Love in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752)
Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic analysis of “courtly love” concludes that the courtly image of the Knight’s subservience to his Lady actually masks the reality of male domination; however, Žižek’s own analysis seems complicit in the same problematic. Whereas courtly love provides a semblance of agenc...
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National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad
2023-06-01
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| Series: | NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry |
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| Online Access: | http://jci.numl.edu.pk/index.php/jci/article/view/246 |