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Chaucer's visions of manhood /
This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference in late fourteenth-century England. By exploring ocularity's equal dependence on invisibility, Chaucer offers men and women access to a vision of manhood, one that fragments a traditional gender binary by blurring its division between agency and passivity. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230604926 0230604927 140397571X 9781403975713 1281362719 9781281362711 9781349536375 1349536377 |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |