Chaucer And The Fictions Of Gender
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Chaucer And The Fictions Of Gender
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Author : Elaine Tuttle Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Chaucer And The Fictions Of Gender written by Elaine Tuttle Hansen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender, the poet’s exploration of masculinity and femininity takes center stage, offering a complex interplay between societal constructs of gender and personal identity. Focusing on the Legend of Good Women, the analysis delves into the feminization of male characters, unraveling how their relationships with women reveal vulnerabilities and insecurities. From Antony’s loss of public honor to Pyramus’s emotional fragility, Chaucer presents men as navigating perilous intersections of love, identity, and societal expectations. Their struggles are contrasted with the archetypes of virtuous women, yet these figures also challenge normative gender roles, blending power with traditional notions of sacrifice. Through these layered narratives, Chaucer critiques the rigidity of patriarchal ideals, illustrating the tensions between personal desires and societal demands. This work positions Chaucer as an artist deeply engaged with the “woman question,” while acknowledging the limitations of interpreting his poetry solely through a proto-feminist lens. By examining the poet’s characters—both male and female—the analysis highlights how Chaucer negotiates the instability of gender roles, revealing an intricate tapestry of social critique and literary innovation. The book invites readers to consider how Chaucer’s works resonate with modern conversations about gender fluidity and the cultural pressures shaping identity. This nuanced exploration redefines the Legend of Good Women as a central piece in Chaucer’s oeuvre, one that pushes the boundaries of medieval literary traditions. 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.
Chaucer Ethics And Gender
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Author : Alcuin Blamires
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-04-06
Chaucer Ethics And Gender written by Alcuin Blamires and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires - mainly concentrating on The Canterbury Tales - discloses how Chaucer adapts the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the significance and the gender implications of his narratives. Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender is therefore not a theorization of ethical reading but a discussion of Chaucer's engagement with the literature of practical ethical advice. Working with the commonplace primary sources of the period, Blamires demonstrates that Stoic ideals, somewhat uncomfortably absorbed within medieval Christian moral codes as Chaucer realized, penetrate the poet's constructions of how women and men behave in matters (for instance) of friendship and anger, sexuality and chastity, protest and sufferance, generosity and greed, credulity and foresight. The book will be absorbing for all serious readers or teachers of Chaucer because it is packed with commanding new insights. It offers illuminating explanations concerning topics that have often eluded critics in the past: the flood-forecast in The Miller's Tale, for example; or the status of emotion and equanimity in The Franklin's Tale; the 'unethical' sexual trading in the Shipman's Tale; the contemporary moral force of a widow's curse in The Friar's Tale; and the quizzical moral link between the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There is even a new hypothesis about the conceptual design of The Canterbury Tales as a whole. Deeply informed and historically alert, this is a book that engages its reader in the vital role played by ethical assumptions (with their attendant gender assumptions) in Chaucer's major poetry.
Chaucer S Approach To Gender In The Canterbury Tales
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Author : Anne Laskaya
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1995
Chaucer S Approach To Gender In The Canterbury Tales written by Anne Laskaya and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
Chaucer S Visions Of Manhood
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Author : H. Crocker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-06-25
Chaucer S Visions Of Manhood written by H. Crocker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Chaucer
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Author : David B. Raybin
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
Chaucer written by David B. Raybin and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
Chaucer S Pardoner And Gender Theory
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Chaucer S Pardoner And Gender Theory written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Gender And Romance In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales
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Author : Susan Crane
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Gender And Romance In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales written by Susan Crane and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws on feminist and genre theory to argue that Chaucer's profound interest in the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity arises in large part from his experience of romance. In depicting the maturation of young women and men, romances stage an ideology of identity that is based in gender difference. Less obviously gendered concerns of romance--social hierarchy, magic, and adventure--are also involved in expressing femininity and masculinity. The genders prove to be not simply binary opposites but overlapping and shifting coreferents. Precarious social standing can carry a feminine taint; women's adventures recall but also contradict those of men. This lively study reveals that Chaucer's redeployments of romance are particularly sensitive to the crucial place gender holds in the genre. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval Romance
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Author : Roberta L. Krueger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-22
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
Father Chaucer And The Apologists
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Author : Sarah Baechle
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2025-05-06
Father Chaucer And The Apologists written by Sarah Baechle and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
On May 4, 1380, Cecily Chaumpaigne filed a quitclaim with the Chancery in Westminster, releasing the poet Geoffrey Chaucer from any prosecution de raptu meo (on account of my rape). This legal document, lost for centuries, has haunted Chaucer studies since its rediscovery in 1873. Over the past 150 years since it reemerged, many Chaucer scholars have sought to discount, sanitize, or excuse the release. Through a careful examination of the long Chaucer historiography, Sarah Baechle shows how critics have read the question of Chaucer’s potential culpability for rape through prevailing attitudes toward sexual violence. They did so, moreover, in ways that will be very familiar to contemporary readers versed in rape culture—practices that dismiss sexual violence by centering and promoting accused perpetrators, erasing or attacking the victim-survivor, and minimizing the violence of the crime. Baechle pairs the necessary excavation of this critical history with reparative readings of the poet’s narratives of sexual violence, including the Miller’s Tale, the Reeve’s Tale, the Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde, and she theorizes “assailant speech” as a counterpart to survivor speech, proposing it as a new means of understanding Chaucer’s place in feminist studies of the Middle Ages. Father Chaucer and the Apologists is an urgently needed examination of the discourse surrounding Chaumpaigne’s quitclaim that reveals the ties between Chaucer studies and the persistence of rape culture. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chaucer and of gender and sexual violence more broadly.
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
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Author : Gail Ashton
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1998-04-01
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales written by Gail Ashton and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your knowledge and engage with the text itself in order to fully appreciate the work of this fascinating, complex and surprisingly modern writer. Whether you consider yourself an expert or a student, this study has something for you as it demonstrates the various approaches which can be used to learn about style, structure, multiple voices and the key themes of Chaucer's work. It offers a careful support and thoughtful framework upon which to base your own analysis and challenging you to form your own ideas and opinions.