Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory - Bodies of Discourse (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)

Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical--and sexual--identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Nana
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	232
Edition:	2000 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-21366-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-312-21366-2
Barcode:	9780312213664

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