| Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Na, Na (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312213662 ISBN-13: 9780312213664 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Medieval |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| LCCN: 99-27777 |
| Series: New Middle Ages |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.86" W x 8.63" (0.93 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |