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Delany Sheila |
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The naked text : Chaucer's legend of good women / / Sheila Delany [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 259 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Women and literature - England - History |
Mythology, Classical, in literature |
Women in literature |
Women and literature - England - History - To 1500 |
Women and literature - History - To 1500 - England |
English Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Reading and Writing. From reader to writer. The two prologues. Reading, knowing, and making. Making a legend -- 2. Women, Nature, and Language. Nature, language, women. Women, nature, language. Gender-marked writing. Eros and Alceste -- 3. The Naked Text. Nakedness. Clothing the text: Thisbe. The logic of obscenity -- 4. Different and Same. Difference: The balade. Geographies of desire: Orientalism in the Legend -- 5. A Gallery of Women. Cleopatra. Thisbe. Dido. Hypsipyle and Medea. Lucrece. Ariadne. Philomela. Phyllis. Hypermnestra. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame, Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy, and history are powerfully brought to bear on one of Chaucer's most controversial works. So too are the insights of modern critical theory - semiotics, historicism, and gender |
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studies especially - making this a unique achievement in medieval and Chaucerian studies. Delany's strikingly original readings of Chaucer's Orientalism, his sexual wordplay, his theological attitudes, and his treatment of sex and gender have given us a Chaucer for our time. Publisher's description. |
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