Chaucer's Sexual Poetics

Name: Chaucer's Sexual Poetics
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ISBN: 9780299122744

ISBN-10: 0299122743

ISBN-13: 9780299122744

Edition: 1990

Authors: Carolyn Dinshaw

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Through an analysis of the poems Chaucers wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, the Man of Law’s Tale, the Wife of Bath’s Tale and its Prologue, the Clerk’s Tale, and the Pardoner’s Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw offers a provocative argument on medieval sexual constructs and Chaucer’s role in shaping them. Operating under the assumption that people read and write certain ways based upon society’s demands, Dinshaw examines gender identity and the effects of a patriarchal society. The focal point of Dinshaw’s argument is the idea that the literary text can be seen as the female body while any literary activities upon the text are decidedly male. Through…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 2/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English