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Mythographic Chaucer : The Fabulation of Sexual Politics

Jane Chance reveals how the concealment of embarrassing secrets often sexual in nature and the burden of political alliances and strategieswhat might together be termed sexual politicsmotivated Chaucer in much of his work. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, she shows how he...

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Autor principal: Chance, Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Abbreviations; A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse"; Part 1. Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions; Part 2. Mythographic Cross-Gendering in the Troilus; Part 3. Subversive Mythography: The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales; Notes; Index.