Screen LibrarySexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature
This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime, Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness ha...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230610521 |
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This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime, Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected. 'Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature is an excellent, groundbreaking book and a major contribution to the ongoing project of recuperating the queer in medieval literature. Pugh's primary concern is with constructions of 'heterosexual' masculinity, and the ways in which such constructions are enabled by the intercession of the queer. This has always been one of the main projects of Queer Theory, and Pugh's book serves as a demonstration of the power of Queer Theory to address pre-modern representations, as well as being an important intervention in the study of medieval literature itself.'--Robert Sturges, Professor of English, Arizona State University and author of Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory and Dialogue and Deviance. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 232 p. |
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9781403984876 9780230610521 : 0230610528 : |
| CLC: | I561.063 |
| Contents: | Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature * Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl * Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity under Duress in the Canterbury Tales * A"He nedes moot unto the pley assenteA": Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale * From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun * Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Grime * Compulsory Queerness and the Pleasures of Medievalism. |