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Author | : Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299122744 |
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Through an analysis of the poems Chaucers wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, the Man of Law's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale and its Prologue, the Clerk's Tale, and the Pardoner's Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw offers a provocative argument on medieval sexual constructs and Chaucer's role in shaping them. Operating under the assumption that people read and write certain ways based upon society's demands, Dinshaw examines gender identity and the effects of a patriarchal society. The focal point of Dinshaw's argument is the idea that the literary text can be seen as the female body while any literary activities upon the text are decidedly male. Through a series of six provocative essays, Dinshaw argues that Chaucer was not only aware that gender is a social construction, but that he self-consciously worked to oppose the dominance of masculinity that a patriarchal society places on texts by creating works in which gender identity and hierarchy were more fluid.
Author | : Elaine Tuttle Hansen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520328205 |
Download Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Author | : Carissa M. Harris |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501730428 |
Download Obscene Pedagogies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
Author | : Susan Schibanoff |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0802090354 |
Download Chaucer's Queer Poetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.
Author | : H. Crocker |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2007-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230604927 |
Download Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.
Author | : Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822323655 |
Download Getting Medieval Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Amanda Holton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135188168X |
Download The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.
Author | : Anne Laskaya |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859914819 |
Download Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents a feminist approach to the Canterbury Tales, investigating the ways in which the tensions and contradictions found within the broad contours of medieval gender discourse write themselves into Chaucer's text. Four discourses of medieval masculinity are examined, which simultaneously reinforce and resist one another: heroic or chivalric, Christian, courtly love, and emerging humanist models. Each chapter attempts to negotiate both contemporary assumptions of gender construction, and essentialist readings of gender common to the middle ages; throughout, the author argues that the Canterbury Tales offer a sophisticated discussion of masculinity, and that it strongly indicts some of the prevalent medieval notions of ideal masculinity while still remaining firmly homosocial and homophobic. The book concludes that on the question of gender issues, the Tales are best studied as male-authored texts containing representations and negotiations revealing much about late medieval masculinities. Dr ANNE LASKAYA teaches in the English Department at the University of Oregon.
Author | : Katie Gramich |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2018-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1770486933 |
Download The Works of Gwerful Mechain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
All of Gwerful Mechain’s known work is included here—as are several poems of uncertain authorship, and a selection of other works that help to fill in the historical and literary context. Each medieval Welsh poem is provided in the original language and in two different translations—a literal translation and a second, freer translation, with rhyme patterns approximating those of the original.
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349618772 |
Download Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical - and sexual - identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.