Chaucer's queer poetics : rereading the dream trio / Susan Schibanoff

Author: Schibanoff, Susan
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2006]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 365 pages)

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Contents

Introduction : 'there is nothing French about Chaucer' -- Anti-courtly polemic in the Chaucer escape narrative and the queer decoy -- Courtliness and heterosexual poetics in the Book of the duchess -- What Dante meant to Chaucer : the hermaphrodite poetics of the Divine comedy -- The House of fame : Geffrey as Ganymede -- Disorderly nature : Aristotle, Alan of Lille, and Jean de Meun -- 'Imaked ... in Fraunce' : nature's queer poetics in the Parliament of fowls -- Au revoir : queer poetics and Chaucer's Englishness.

Summary

This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.

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9781442672918 (electronic bk.)
1442672919 (electronic bk.)
0802090354 (bound)
9780802090355 (bound)

Bibliography Note

Includes "Work cited" (pages [325]-350) and index.

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