| The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature Contributor(s): Margherita, Gayle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812232178 ISBN-13: 9780812232172 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary OUR PRICE: $75.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1994 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Medieval - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 821.109 |
| LCCN: 94012610 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Subtitled Language and sexual difference in Middle English literature', this book explores the relationship between sexual and historical fantasies in several medieval English texts: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Life and the Passion of St Juliana, and several of the secular Harley Lyrics. Margherita takes feminist, psychoanalytic and post-structuralist angles in her criticism, applying current theoretical and political concerns to these texts. |