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Many journal articles have been published about the sexuality of the Pardoner in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, but this is the first book-length study of the character. Along with its extensive examination of the Pardoner's sexuality, the book delves into medieval society's perception of and attitudes toward ambiguous gender. In fact, this effort, part of "The New Middle Ages" series, which emphasizes transdisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, focuses more on medieval views of gender than on analyzing Chaucer's work. Most readers would find a selection of journal articles about Chaucer's Pardoner more useful and accessible. Sturges (English, Univ. of New Orleans) has published numerous articles and one book about medieval French literature. Because his vocabulary is very specialized and his literary quotations are not translated, readers must be familiar with Middle English and with gender-studies terminology. Recommended for academic libraries only.
-Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ., Zanesville
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ., Zanesville
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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sentialism. 'French bourgeois woman' or 'Anglo-American lesbian,' while crucially emphasizing in their very specificity that 'woman' is by no means a monolithic category, nevertheless reinscribe an essentialist logic at the very level of historicism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stif burdoun, pardoner himself, veiled phallus, bodily voice, sexual normality, erotic practices, vera icon, planctu naturae, medieval sexuality, unmentionable vice, phallic authority, medieval discourses, supposed relics, false relics, second veil, straight mind, anatomical sex, gender transgression, repressed feminine, physical dissolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, General Prologue, New York, Chaucer's Pardoner, Alan of Lille, University of Chicago Press, John Ball, The Prioress's Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw, Wife of Bath, Judith Butler, Martianus Capella, God the Father, Historia Anglicana, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, University of California Press, Anonimalle Chronicle, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, Harvard University Press, Invention of Sodomy, Jean de Meun, John Boswell, Michel Foucault, Social Tolerance New!
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sentialism. 'French bourgeois woman' or 'Anglo-American lesbian,' while crucially emphasizing in their very specificity that 'woman' is by no means a monolithic category, nevertheless reinscribe an essentialist logic at the very level of historicism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stif burdoun, pardoner himself, veiled phallus, bodily voice, sexual normality, erotic practices, vera icon, planctu naturae, medieval sexuality, unmentionable vice, phallic authority, medieval discourses, supposed relics, false relics, second veil, straight mind, anatomical sex, gender transgression, repressed feminine, physical dissolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, General Prologue, New York, Chaucer's Pardoner, Alan of Lille, University of Chicago Press, John Ball, The Prioress's Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw, Wife of Bath, Judith Butler, Martianus Capella, God the Father, Historia Anglicana, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, University of California Press, Anonimalle Chronicle, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, Harvard University Press, Invention of Sodomy, Jean de Meun, John Boswell, Michel Foucault, Social Tolerance New!
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- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on 46 pages
- Human Body (Inside-Outside Puzzles, 2005) by Straight Edge Press on 7 pages
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler on 5 pages
- Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler on 5 pages
- Framing Medieval Bodies by Sarah Kay on 4 pages
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- Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure In Late Medieva by Elizabeth Scala in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages) by Constant J. Mews in Front Matter
- Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc by Maud Burnett McInerney in Front Matter
- Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages) by Francesca Canade Sautman in Front Matter
- The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (The New Middle Ages) by Constant J. Mews in Front Matter
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