Chaucer's queer poetics : rereading the dream trio /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2006.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.