Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory : Bodies of Discourse Hardback
by Robert S. Sturges, Bonnie Wheeler
Part of the The New Middle Ages series
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This treatment of Chaucer's Pardoner from the "Canterbury Tales" is from the perspective of both medieval and 20th-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice.
Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, bibliography
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/04/2000
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- ISBN:9780333802380
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, bibliography
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/04/2000
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- ISBN:9780333802380
