Gender And Language In Chaucer

Author : Catherine S. Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813015197

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Gender and Language in Chaucer by Catherine S. Cox Pdf

"Builds expertly and significantly on several earlier feminist analyses of Chaucer's works. . . . An important addition to the growing body of work devoted to Chaucer and gender. . . . One of the real strengths of this work is the way in which it ties medieval notions of gender both to ancient, Aristotelian views and to modern and postmodern feminist theories."--Laura Howes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville "A seminal critical text in Chaucer and medieval studies. . . . Thoroughly enjoyable."--Liam Purdon, Doane College, Crete, Nebraska Catherine S. Cox considers the significance of gender in relation to language and poetics in Chaucer's writing. Examining selections from The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and the ballades, she explores Chaucer's concern with gender and language both within the context of fourteenth-century culture and in light of contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theory. Cox argues that Chaucer's attention to gender and language exposes the contradictory notions of woman in medieval culture. Further, resisting the imposition of modern, reductive theoretical concerns on medieval authors, Cox makes a compelling case for a Chaucer who both confirms and challenges the orthodoxy of his day, thereby countering recent arguments that insist upon a wholly feminist or wholly patriarchal Chaucer. Informed by a broad range of traditional literary and historical scholarship (including Aristotelian philosophy, medieval Latin culture, and the writings of the Church fathers) as well as by recent psychoanalytical debates related to postmodern feminist critical theory (including those of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and feminist film theorists), Cox's study demonstrates the significant interplay among ancient, medieval, and modern issues of scholarship and learning. Catherine S. Cox is assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, and the author of articles on Dante, Henryson, and other medieval writers.

Author : Michael Masi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820469467

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Chaucer and Gender by Michael Masi Pdf

Gender criticism has recently been applied to a wide range of ancient and modern literature; such an approach can reveal many previously unrecognized attitudes among earlier writers. Chaucer has long been recognized as a writer with psychological sensitivities. This book attempts to show that Chaucer has demonstrated his sensitivities on gender issues by recognizing and revising many of the gender stereotypes familiar from his time. It is likely that he was influenced in these ideas by an early feminist writer from France, Christine de Pizan, who complained about the Romance of the Rose as an embodiment of gender stereotyping. Chaucer's later works particularly show an awareness of gender issues that has not been entirely recognized and which is at variance with ideas in the Romance, which he had translated into English during his youthful period.

Author : Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520328204

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Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender by Elaine Tuttle Hansen Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Author : John Matthews Manly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU69983240

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Observation on the Language of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women by John Matthews Manly Pdf

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349618774

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Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory by NA NA Pdf

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.

Author : Deborah Heinen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656688327

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Gender and Marriage in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." The "Marriage Group" by Deborah Heinen Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: “That he is a poet concerned with gender issues is obvious: almost every narrative in the Canterbury Tales deals with how the sexes relate to one another or envision one another” (Laskaya 1995: 11). Of course Laskaya talks about Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous work “The Canterbury Tales” from the 14th century, which is an unfinished collection of tales told by a group of pilgrims. Even though Laskaya accounts “The Canterbury Tales” as rich in gender issues, this work concentrates on four specific prologues and tales, the so called “Marriage Group”. The work in hand is supposed to discuss gender-specific aspects and gender-relations in the context of medieval society using the example of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”.

Author : Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Author : Anne Laskaya
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991481X

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Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales by Anne Laskaya Pdf

This volume presents a feminist approach to the Canterbury Tales, investigating the ways in which the tensions and contradictions found within the broad contours of medieval gender discourse write themselves into Chaucer's text. Four discourses of medieval masculinity are examined, which simultaneously reinforce and resist one another: heroic or chivalric, Christian, courtly love, and emerging humanist models. Each chapter attempts to negotiate both contemporary assumptions of gender construction, and essentialist readings of gender common to the middle ages; throughout, the author argues that the Canterbury Tales offer a sophisticated discussion of masculinity, and that it strongly indicts some of the prevalent medieval notions of ideal masculinity while still remaining firmly homosocial and homophobic. The book concludes that on the question of gender issues, the Tales are best studied as male-authored texts containing representations and negotiations revealing much about late medieval masculinities. Dr ANNE LASKAYA teaches in the English Department at the University of Oregon.

Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 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

Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Anglo-Saxon literature
ISBN : 0859917606

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Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature by Elaine Treharne Pdf

Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres. The essays in this annual English Association volume provide useful examples of how the conventions behind and the expectations evoked by literary modes and genres help to shape what purports to be an entirely essential and/or socially constructed aspect of identity of the 'he', 'she', or 'I' of the literary text. Ranging across materials from Old English Biblical poetry and hagiography to the late Middle English romances and fabliaux, the essays are united by a commitment to a variety of traditional scholarly methodologies. But each examines afresh an important aspect of what it means to be man or women, husband, son, mother, daughter, wife, devotee or love in the context of particular kinds of medieval literary texts. Contributors ANNE MARIE D'ARCY, HUGH MAGENNIS, DAVID SALTER, MARY SWAN, ELAINE TREHARNE, GREG WALKER.

Author : Nicole Nyffenegger,Katrin Rupp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110578133

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Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer by Nicole Nyffenegger,Katrin Rupp Pdf

Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription, and the skin’s precarious state as an entity of its own.

Author : Jill Mann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.

Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.

Author : Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

Author : H. Crocker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230604926

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Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood by H. Crocker Pdf

This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.