睦鄰的情感悖論：以喬叟的《坎特伯里故事集》為例

“The Affective Paradox of Neighborliness in Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’” is aone-year MOST project that seeks to examine the concept of neighborliness andits problematic affective rhetoric in Middle English texts. To that end, I willconduct research primarily on the first three finished texts in Chaucer’sCanterbury Tales (Fragment I)—The Knight’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, and TheReeve’s Tale. Building on recent contemporary research on neighbor andneighborliness, such as Kenneth Reinhard and Slavoj Zizek, I argue that thepresence of the Neighbor not only unveils the interlocking interests amongdifferent parties within a medieval urban context, but also challenges thetraditional subjectivity-alterity divide. The project seeks to contribute to both thecontemporary Neighbor theory and the scholarship of medieval British literature.