Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse

(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)

by Robert S. Sturges

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312213662

ISBN13:9780312213664

Release Date:March 2000

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.93 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

Ancient, Classical & Medieval Criticism & Theory English Literature Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Theory Literature Literature & Fiction Medieval Movements & Periods Poetry

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Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse

(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)

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