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Salter, Elizabeth, 68 n, 222 n, 297 n, 328 n, 341 , 342 n, 345 , 359 -60, 360 n, 361 -62;

on Knight's Tale,3 n

Salutati, Collucio, 348 n

Samaritan woman, 67 , 70 , 71 , 115

Samson, 118 , 119

Sands, Donald B., 68 n, 96 n

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 134 n, 172 n, 268 n

Saturn, 282 , 316 , 318 , 333 , 334 n, 346 ;

doubleness of, 319 -20;

Egeus and, 345 ;

grotesquery of, 319 ;

as political manipulator, 319 ;

self-presentation, 319 -20;

as split subject, 323 ;

as surrogate for Knight, 320 ;

Venus and, 318 -20

de Saussure, Ferdinand, 80 n

Scandal, 196 -97, 206

Schauber and Spolsky, 142 n

Schmidt, A. V. C., 314 n

Schnur, Susan, 72 n

Scilicet, 182

Second Nun (see also Second Nun's Tale),30 , 107 ;

"bisynesse" and, 200 ;

disenchantment and, 205 ;

"feminine" imagination and, 198 , 205 ;

General Prologue,395 ;

housewife's syndrome and, 200 ;

as narrator, 199 , 203 -5;

as translator, 200 -203

Second Nun's Tale (see also Second Nun), 198 ;

compared with Latin original, 201 -1, 201 -2n;

luxuria and accidia in, 200 ;

style, 201 -2

Sedgewick, Eve Kosofsky, 329

Self (see also Character; Subject), 100 , 303 , 416 ;

deconstruction and, 15 -16, 170 ;

disenchanted, 383 , 417 ;

distinguished from subject, 14 ;

dramatic method and, 9 ;

encounter with, by Wife of Bath, 133 ;

as essence, 68 ;

in General Prologue,412 ;

external, 9 ;

fragmentation of, in Knight's Tale,284 ;

fragmented, Wife of Bath as, 99 ;

humanist view of, 14 ;

as illusion, 14 ;

impersonated artistry and, 9 ;

as impossible fact, 413 ;

mirror stage and, 280 ;

Pardoner as, 63 ;

poet's desire for, 412 ;

"real," 136 ;

reevaluated in General Prologue,394 ;

separated from itself, 172 ;

Wife of Bath as, 81 , 98 ;

Wife of Bath's experience of, contrasted with Pardoner, 163 ;

in Wife of Bath's Prologue,80

Self-consciousness:

increasing, in Knight, 286 ;

undecidable, in Pardoner, 176 ;

in Pardoner's Tale,171 ;

Wife of Bath's, 106

Self-presentation, 138 , 180 ;

aim of Pardoner and Wife of Bath, 65 ;

defined, 66 ;

Pardoner's, 55 , 62 ;

Pardoner's and Wife's tales as, 28 ;

Saturn's, 319 ;

self-revelation and, 66 ;

in tension with memory, for Wife of Bath, 89 ;

Theseus's, 324 -25;

Wife of Bath and, 83

Self-revelation, 138 , 180 ;

defined, 66 ;

self-presentation and, 66

"Sely":

analyzed, 124 , 124 n

Semele, 120

Seneca, 150

Sex:

act, and Wife of Bath, 85 ;

both personal and social in Wife of Bath, 135 ;

unsatisfactory, in Wife of Bath's Prologue,86

Sexual difference, 180

Sexuality, 172 , 259 , 328 ;

associated with fire, for Wife of Bath, 152 ;

authority and, in medieval culture, 185 ;

commodification of, in Wife of Bath's dream, 103 -5;

desire and aggression in, in Wife of Bath's Prologue,109 ;

disenchanted view of, 76 ;

as enigma, 135 ;

in General Prologue,399 ;

male, exploited by Wife of Bath, 74 ;

Pardoner's, 173 ;

Pasiphae's, 123 ;

as pretext for aggression, 74 ;

Prioress and, 198 ;

rejection of, and Diana, 288 ;

Second Nun and, 198 ;

and Wife of Bath's dream, 102 ;

and Wife of Bath's old husbands, 85 -86;

Wife of Bath's portrait and, 399

Shapiro, Gloria K., 102 n, 156 n

Shaw, Priscilla, 128

Shipman, 189 n;

and barge, the Maudeleyne,398 ;

in General Prologue,397

Shipman's Tale,10 n

Silva, D. S., 96 n

Silverman, Kaja, 181 n

Sin (see also Holy Ghost: sin against), 164 ;

at end of Pardoner's Tale,55 ;

exegetical criticism and, 36 ;

in Pardoner's sermon, 40 -41

Skeat, W. W., 274 n, 281 , 185 , 315 n

Sklute, Larry R., 214 n, 388 n

Slade, Tony, 153 n

Sledd, James, 65

Smith, James, 229 n, 236 n

Socrates, 124 -25

Solomon, 83 , 86 , 123 n, 268 , 272 ;

in Wife of Bath's Prologue,73

Sontag, Susan, 221 n, 224

Sovereignty, female, 66 , 72 , 79 , 140 ;

(see also "Maistrye")

argument of Wife of

Bath's Tale,142 ;

as reversal of male power, 72 -73

Speaker, 277 , 281 , 386 ;

as agent, 23 ;

of Canterbury Tales, divided, 385 ;

as grammatical subject, 10 ;

in First Mover speech, 362 -63, 369 , 370 ;

of General Prologue,384 , 388 -89;

indeterminacy of, 386 -90;

in Knight's Tale,322 -23, 372 ;

as voice, 10

Spearing, A. C., 39 , 39 n, 222 n, 232 , 366

Speech acts:

constative and performative, 196

Spenser, Edmund, 284 , 284 n

Spiers, John, 161 n

Spiritual Franciscans, 409

Spiritual level. See Literal and spiritual

Spitzer, Leo:

on poetic "I" and unimpersonated artistry, 6 n

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 98 , 186 n

Spolsky, Ellen. See Schauber and Spolsky

Squire:

animal soul and, 396 -97;

in General Prologue,395

Statius, 226 , 285 n, 310 , 310 n, 353 ;

as source of Knight's Tale,225 ;

Thebaid, 120 , 121 n, 226 , 285 n

Stockton, Eric W., 47 n

Storytelling:

Chaucer's conception of, 25 ;

generic expectations and, 24 ;

interaction of subject and institution, 26 , 383 ;

modalities of consciousness and, 21 ;

practical consciousness and, 20 ;

public world and, 24 ;

subjects and, 25

Strohm, Paul:

quoted with approbation, 416 -17

Structure:

duality of, 351

Stylization, 224 , 226 ;

Susan Sontag on, 221

Subject (see also Character; Personality; Self), 110 ;

agency of, 22 -23, 27 ;

Chaucer's, in Canterbury Tales,139 ;

of chivalry, 352 , 372 ;

construction of, 172 , 308 ;

deconstruction and, 16 ;

defined, 14 ;

discourse on, 178 , 180 -81, 181 -83;

as structure of displacements, 178 ;

distinguished from self, 14 ;

Donaldson's Chaucer and, 384 ;

experienced as absence, 172 ;

external, 381 ;

feminine, 195 ;

gender and, 190 ;

grammatical, 10 , 14 ;

indeterminacy of, 136 ;

institution of, 322 , 351 , 372 ;

intention and intenrionality in, 177 ;

irony and, 170 ;

Knight as, 292 ;

male, 189 , 278 ;

Mars as, 284 , 383 ;

painful knowledge and, 188 ;

Pardoner as, 30 , 63 , 171 ;

personality and, 11 ;

psychoanalytic, 14 ;

Saturn as, 323 ;

social, 14 , 16 ;

split, 284 ;

as voice of text, 9 ;

Wife of Bath as, 29 , 81 , 98 , 100 -101, 112 -13, 131

Subjectivity (see also Character; Personality; Subject), 138 , 372 , 382 , 415 ;

in Canterbury Tales,413 ;

Christian, 410 ;

entry into language and, 182 ;

Knight's, 328 , 381 ;

Mars and, 284 ;

Pardoner's, 161 , 381 ;

as rhizome, 101 ;

speaker of General Prologue and, 389 ;

Wife of Bath's, 99 , 168 , 381

Sublimation, 281 ;

Palamon and, 302

Sultan of Turkey, 223 n, 409

Summoner, 140 , 375 ;

disenchanted, 401 ;

in General Prologue,400

Symbolic order:

construction of, 183 ;

defined, 182 ;

woman in, 189 , 189 n

Symbolizarion, 265 -66