Bringing the concerns of queer theory and postcolonial studies to
bear on Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, this ambitious book compels a
rethinking not only of this most canonical of works, but also of
questions of sexuality and gender in pre- and postmodern contexts,
of issues of modernity and nation in historiography, and even of
the enterprise of historiography itself. Glenn Burger shows us
Chaucer uneasily situated between the medieval and the modern, his
work representing new forms of sexual and communal identity but
also enacting the anxieties provoked by such departures from the
past.
Burger argues that, under the pressure of producing a poetic
vision for a new vernacular English audience in the Canterbury
Tales, Chaucer reimagines late medieval relations between the body
and the community. In close readings that are at once original,
provocative, and convincing, Chaucer's Queer Nation helps readers
to see the author and audience constructed with and by the Tales as
subjects-in-process caught up in a conflicted moment of "becoming."
In turn, this historicization unsettles present-day assumptions
about identity with the realization that social organizations of
the body can be done differently.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
