The 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 strategies-what might together be termed sexual politics-motivated Chaucer in much of his work. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, she shows how...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Chance, Jane, 1945- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 1994.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttv9p
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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