Ful pale face: Agamben's blopolitical theory and the sovereign subject in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale

Exemplaria

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-134

  McClellan, William ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 70449981486     PISSN: 10412573     EISSN: 17533074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/exm.2005.17.1.103     Document Type: Article

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