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Conquering the Reign of Femeny

Author : Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859914607

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Conquering the Reign of Femeny by Angela Jane Weisl Pdf

Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore and challenge this genre. She argues that Chaucer's complex treatment of the romance, following both continental and Middle English traditions, experiments with and tests romance conventions. Each chapter looks indetail at one or more of Chaucer's works, examining their different approaches to the problems of gender, and showing how this is closely connected with genre. Subjects addressed include the feminised private spaces in Troilus and Criseydewhich protect Criseyde, but are inevitably penetrated by male power; the masculine imperatives of the epic which challenge the limits of the feminised romance in the Knight'sTale(and the speech of its heroine Emelye, who questions the assumptions of the genre itself); Canacee in the Squire's Tale, who rejects the stereotyped role of the heroine, and the romance world in the Tale of SirThopas, without a heroine at all.Dr ANGELA JANE WEISLis visiting assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio.

Chaucer's Feminine Subjects

Author : J. Pitcher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137089724

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Chaucer's Feminine Subjects by J. Pitcher Pdf

This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity.

Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema

Author : L. Ramey,T. Pugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230603561

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Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema by L. Ramey,T. Pugh Pdf

The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers. The essays in this collection demonstrate that directors intentionally insert modern preoccupations into a setting that would normally be considered incompatible with these concepts. The Middle Ages provide an imaginary space far enough removed from the present day to explore modern preoccupations with human identity.

Feminizing Chaucer

Author : Jill Mann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859916134

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Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann Pdf

An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivityin human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity. First published [as Geoffrey Chaucer] in the series 'Feminist Readings', this new edition includes a new chapter, 'Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature'. The references and bibliography have been updated, and a new preface surveys publications in the field over the last decade. JILL MANN is currently Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender

Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199248674

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Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender by Alcuin Blamires Pdf

Alcuin Blamires explains how Chaucer shapes human problems in terms of the uneasy mix of moral traditions at the time. He looks at the main ethical and gender issues that dominate Chaucer's work

Medieval English Romance in Context

Author : Gail Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441129956

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Medieval English Romance in Context by Gail Ashton Pdf

Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission. Close readings of key texts - including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Breton lays and Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - highlight generic features and issues like family drama, space and time, and nationhood. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives including gender and queer theory, and post-colonialism in medieval studies. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores reinterpretations of medieval romance and the Arthurian cycles in a range of popular texts and narratives from Doctor Who to Batman. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying Medieval Romance.

Critical Companion to Chaucer

Author : Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 9781438108407

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Critical Companion to Chaucer by Rosalyn Rossignol Pdf

Examines the life and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, character portraits, social and historical influences, and more.

Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, and Physician’s Tale

Author : Kenneth Bleeth
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442667556

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Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, and Physician’s Tale by Kenneth Bleeth Pdf

The latest volume in the Chaucer Bibliographies series, meticulously assembled by Kenneth Bleeth, is the most comprehensive record of scholarship on Chaucer's Squire's Tale, Franklin's Tale, and Physician's Tale.

Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

Author : Anne McTaggart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137039521

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Shame and Guilt in Chaucer by Anne McTaggart Pdf

Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality

Author : L. Sylvester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610316

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Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality by L. Sylvester Pdf

This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this period. This book tests current theories of language and desire through stylistic analysis, examining transitivity choices and speech acts in sexual encounters and conversations in medieval romances. In the context of current preoccupations with gender and sexuality, and consent in rape cases, this study is of interest to scholars investigating language and sexuality as well as those researching and teaching medieval literature and culture.

Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages

Author : C. Beattie,K. Fenton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230297562

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Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages by C. Beattie,K. Fenton Pdf

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.

An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer

Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048352

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An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer by Tison Pugh Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.

Modernism, Modernity, and Arnold Bennett

Author : Robert Squillace
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838753647

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Modernism, Modernity, and Arnold Bennett by Robert Squillace Pdf

This book delineates the unique role of Arnold Bennett in the transformation of the British novel from the aesthetic, psychological, and sociopolitical assumptions of modernity to those of modernism. Early in his career, Bennett believed that the rejection of inherited traditions and authorities that was promulgated by such champions of modernity as Darwin, Marx, and even Herbert Spencer, would culminate in an assertion of personal autonomy. Bennett eventually assimilated the modernist critique of modernity, which discovered (with the help of Freud and the First World War) an intractable human irrationality that expressed itself in the most apparently reasonable schemes for human improvement.

Women and Medieval Literary Culture

Author : Corinne Saunders,Diane Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108876919

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Women and Medieval Literary Culture by Corinne Saunders,Diane Watt Pdf

Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.

Chaucer

Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271035676

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Chaucer by David B. Raybin Pdf

"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.