Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory : Bodies of Discourse (The New Middle Ages)

Sturges, Robert S./ Wheeler, Bonnie

Palgrave Macmillan（2000/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333802380
• DDC分類 821.1

Full Description

This treatment of Chaucer's Pardoner from the "Canterbury Tales" is from the perspective of both medieval and 20th-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is 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.

Contents

Introduction: The Pardoner in Discourse: Theories, Histories, Methods PART I: CONTEXTS The Pardoner's (Over-)Sexed Body The Pardoner's Genders: Linguistic and Other The Pardoner's Different Erotic Practices PART II: READINGS The Pardoner Unveiled A Speaking and Singing Subject The Dismemberment of the Pardoner The Pardoner, the Preacher, and (Gender) Politics Conclusions The Pardoner In and Out of The Canterbury Tales Notes Works Cited