초서의 중세 동양담론 -「법률가의 이야기」의 경제,성,텍스트 = Chaucer`s Oriental Discourse: Economy, Sexuality, and Textuality in the Man of Law`s Tale

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is significant that Chaucer lets the Man of Law tell a story of the oriental pagan world. Since the Man of Law, by his occupation, works in the realm of order, reason, and law, it is understandable that he abhors the unnatural sexuality of incest, that his legal text is absolutely correct, and that he has a reasonable but rigid sense of possession, Accordingly, the image of the oriental world as he sees it is quite opposite to orderliness and rationality. The Islamic Syria and the pagan Northumberland are described as utterly irrational and superfluous, i.e., as the counter-image of the sexual, textual, and economic sanity of his own world. His Tale, however, uncovers the other side of the lawyer`s professed inclination toward rationality, The text can never be said to be tidy and thrifty, in view of the luxuriant stanza form and the frequent affective responses, both of which are the salient poetic outfit of the Tale. And the incestuous desire to protect Constance and her Roman Catholic lineage is obviously latent in his unconscious. This economy of excess contradicts his initial portrait represented by order, reason and law. Therefore, the positional division between the East and the West is, once made, soon deconstructed in the Tale. The lawyer, along with the merchant, is a man of negotium(busy-ness). They are supposed to coordinate the symbolic world by means of the law of the father and commercial negotiation. However, the lawyer`s uneasy feeling about the oriental pagan world leads him back to the imaginary stage of otium. In the late medieval period, when the commercial discourse of exchange opened a new realm of economy, and at the same time, the Muslims reconquered all of the Crusaders` holdings, the lawyer`s subject can never be stable. It cannot be said that Chaucer endorses the Man of Law`s inclination for the binary division between the East and the West ; nor is it true that he fully manipulates and makes fun of the lawyer`s psychological ambivalence toward it. As much a medieval subject as the Man of Law. Chaucer does not have a determined opinion available to him. Rather, Chaucer`s subjectivity is made up in the course of his writing the Tale. At least in the Tale. Chaucer impersonates the Man of Law and shares with him, to considerable extent, the dominant medieval conception of the non-Christian world as inferior and dangerous.

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