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Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical - and sexual - identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.
- About the authors
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Robert S. Sturges is Professor of English at the University of New Orleans.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-18
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The Pardoner’s Genders: Linguistic and Other
Pages 21-33
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The Pardoner’s (Over-)Sexed Body
Pages 35-46
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The Pardoner’s Different Erotic Practices
Pages 47-59
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The Pardoner Unveiled
Pages 63-80
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory
- Book Subtitle
- Bodies of Discourse
- Authors
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- NA NA
- Series Title
- The New Middle Ages
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights are restricted. Dual edition
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-61877-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-349-61877-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-21366-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 232
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