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Mythographic Chaucer - The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Paperback, New Ed)
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Mythographic Chaucer - The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Paperback, New Ed)
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The concealment of embarrassing, often sexual, secrets and the
burden of political alliances and strategies - in short, sexual
politics - motivated Chaucer in much of his work. This concept,
long suspected but mostly ignored by Chaucer critics, receives full
treatment in "The mythographic Chaucer". Firmly placing Chaucer in
the cultural politics of his time, this study shows how the author
inverted the mythographic and textual conventions of the period for
his own literary, social, and political purposes. Comparing
significant mythological images, references, and figures in
Chaucerian poems with those of other medieval mythographers, Chance
discloses Chaucer's ironic use of mythographic tradition to
disguise the scandalous and politically sensitive. Here we see, for
instance, how Chaucer deployed the medieval model of poetic
concealment to construct the fabulation (the narratio fabulosa,
itself a medieval techne) of sexual politics. This analysis gives
us a rich sense of the complexity of Chaucer's mythographic options
and his playful employment of contextual material as he rewrote,
and tried to resolve, tensions among vernacular, classical, and
Christian (sometimes Hebraic) scriptural and textual traditions.
Invaluable to an understanding of Chaucer, this book is also
instructive in showing how mythographic analysis can combine
"traditional" literary elucidation with the issues of contemporary
cultural theory.
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