Frenzy and Females: Subject Formation in Opposition to The Other in the Prose Lancelot

@article{Plummer1996FrenzyAF,
  title={Frenzy and Females: Subject Formation in Opposition to The Other in the Prose Lancelot},
  author={John F. Plummer},
  journal={Arthuriana},
  year={1996},
  volume={6},
  pages={45 - 51}
}
The multiple periods of madness suffered by Lancelot in the presence of liminal, sexually charged women suggests anxiety about a whole, stable, chivalric male subject. 
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