UID:
edocfu_9958353149702883
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 --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: ‘There is nothing French about Chaucer’ --
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PART 1 --
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1. Anti-Courtly Polemic in the Chaucer Escape Narrative and the Queer Decoy --
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2. Courtliness and Heterosexual Poetics in the Book of the Duchess --
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PART 2 --
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3. What Dante Meant to Chaucer: The Hermaphrodite Poetics of the Divine Comedy --
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4. The House of Fame: Geffrey as Ganymede --
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PART 3 --
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5. Disorderly Nature: Aristotle, Alan of Lille, and Jean de Meun --
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6. ‘imaked ... in Fraunce’: Nature’s Queer Poetics in the Parliament of Fowls --
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Au revoir: Queer Poetics and Chaucer’s Englishness --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442672918
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672918
