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Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (Paperback, New)
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Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (Paperback, New)
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In Chaucer's texts amatory acts are often correlated with literary
acts; for him, literary activity is always a gendered activity.
Writing in the context of a resolutely patriarchal culture,
Chaucer's acts of interpretation are masculine activities. Carolyn
Dinshaw's work is based on the idea that gendered relations such as
courtship, marriage and betrayal do not simply provide plot
elements in Chaucer's work but are in fact central to an
understanding of Chaucer's poetics. In her readings of Chaucer's
texts, Dinshaw argues that he demonstrates both his investment in
patriarchal discourse and his awareness of its limitations. Dinshaw
traces Chaucer's explorations of writing and gender in his major
works. In ""Troilus and Criseyde"" and the ""Legend of Good Women""
Chaucer creates an emphatically masculine narrator who atttempts to
control - and finally rejects - the unruly feminine in all its
textual forms: he rejects both earthly love and the ""carnal""
letter of the pagan text. In ""The Canterbury Tales"", the Man of
Law also tries to control the feminine, whch emerges in the
contradictions and problematic gaps that open up in his narrative.
The Wife of Bath, who responds energetically to the Man of Law's
performance, represents everything the Man of Law tries to
suppress. The Clerk, and finally the Pardoner, point toward a
profound critique of a patriarchal hermeneutic model, especially of
its gender distinctions. In bringing together modern theory and a
medieval writer, Dinshaw demonstrates the existence of a long
tradition of patriarchal thinking - and a long tradition of
feminist critique.
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