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Format: 1 online resource (376 pages)

ISBN: 9781442672918 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Schibanoff, Susan. Chaucer's queer poetics : rereading the dream trio. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2006 ISBN 9780802090355

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; History. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442672918

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: ‘There is nothing French about Chaucer’ -- , PART 1 -- , 1. Anti-Courtly Polemic in the Chaucer Escape Narrative and the Queer Decoy -- , 2. Courtliness and Heterosexual Poetics in the Book of the Duchess -- , PART 2 -- , 3. What Dante Meant to Chaucer: The Hermaphrodite Poetics of the Divine Comedy -- , 4. The House of Fame: Geffrey as Ganymede -- , PART 3 -- , 5. Disorderly Nature: Aristotle, Alan of Lille, and Jean de Meun -- , 6. ‘imaked ... in Fraunce’: Nature’s Queer Poetics in the Parliament of Fowls -- , Au revoir: Queer Poetics and Chaucer’s Englishness -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442672918

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672918