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Autore |
Crocker Holly A (Holly Adryan), <1971-> |
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Titolo |
Chaucer's visions of manhood [[electronic resource] /] / Holly A. Crocker |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36271-9 |
9786611362713 |
0-230-60492-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Masculinity in literature |
Men in literature |
Sex role in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Chaucer's Visions of Manhood; 1 Seeing Gender's Aspects: Vision, Agency, and Masculinity in the Tale of Melibee; 2 Portrait of a Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physician's Tale; 3 "My first matere I wil yow telle": Visual Impact in the Book of the Duchess; 4 Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility between Chaucer's Wife and Shipman; 5 Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in Harley 7333; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary. |
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