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Chaucer's queer poetics : rereading the dream trio / Susan Schibanoff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 365 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442672918
  • 1442672919
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chaucer's queer poetics.DDC classification:
  • 821/.1
LOC classification:
  • PR1933.S35 S34 2006eb
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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.
Summary: 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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Includes "Work cited" (p. [325]-350) and index.

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.

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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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