Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory

Bodies of Discourse

Na Na (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2000 | 2000 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-312-21366-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Robert S. Sturges is Professor of English at the University of New Orleans.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2000
Reihe/Serie	The New Middle Ages
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 232 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-312-21366-2 / 0312213662
ISBN-13	978-0-312-21366-4 / 9780312213664
Zustand	Neuware