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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Chaucer's Visions of Manhood
- Part I: Engendering Cultural Sights
- The Femininity Mystique: Art, Vision, and Allegory in the Tale of Melibee
- Portrait of the Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physician's Tale
- Part II: Reforming Social Perspective
- My first matere I wil yow telle: Bodily Impact in the Book of the Duchess
- Generic Vision: Dislocating Masculinities in the Merchant's Tale
- Part III: Envisioning Literary Bodies
- Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility Between Chaucer's Wife and Shipman
- Conclusion: Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in MS. BL Harley 7333.