UID:
almahu_9948208624102882
Format:
XXIII, 232 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2000.
ISBN:
9781349618774
Series Statement:
The New Middle Ages
Content:
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.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780312213664
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349618798
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349618781
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-61877-4
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61877-4
