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Father Chaucer : generating authority in The Canterbury Tales / Samantha Katz Seal

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Seal, Samantha Katz
Published
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: SECTION I ON CERTAINTY -- 1.Sexual Exegetics and the Female Text -- 2.The Uneasy Institution: Lineage and the Wife of Bath -- SECTION II ON CREATION -- 3.Uncertain Labor: Conception and the Problem of Productivity -- 4.Adultery's Heirs: Multiplying Excess -- SECTION III ON LIKENESS -- 5.Almost Heirs: Daughters and Disappointments -- 6.Father Chaucer's Heirs.
Summary
Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and promotes work that not only focuses on the whole array of subjects medievalists now pursue-in literature, theology, philosophy, social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science-but also work that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative and interdisciplinarystudies of every kind, including but not limited to manuscript and book history, linguistics and literature, post-colonial and global studies, the digital humanities and media studies, performance studies, the history of affect and the emotion, the theory and history of sexuality, ecocriticism and0environmental studies, theories of the lyric, of aesthetics, of the practices of devotion, and ideas of medievalism. 0When Geoffrey Chaucer is named the 'Father of English poetry', an inherent assumption about paternity is transmitted. Chaucer's 'fatherhood' is presented as a means of poetic legitimization, a stable mode of authority that connects the medieval author with all the successive generations of English writers. This book argues, however, that for Chaucer himself, paternity was a far more fraught ambition, one capable of devastating male identity as surely as it could enshrine it. Moving away from anachronistic assumptions about reproduction and authority, this book argues that Chaucer profoundly struggled with his own desire to create something that would last past his own death. For Chaucer also believed that men were the humble, mortal playthings of an all too distant God.0.
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ISBN
0198832389 hardcover
9780198832386 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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