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UNINA9910780672703321 |
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Autore |
Schibanoff Susan |
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Chaucer's queer poetics : rereading the dream trio / / Susan Schibanoff |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-99176-7 |
9786611991760 |
1-4426-7291-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Joanne Goodman lecture series Lovers and livers |
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Soggetti |
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Homosexuality and literature - England - History - To 1500 |
History |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
England |
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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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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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