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UNISA996208218003316 |
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Hirsh John C |
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Chaucer and the Canterbury tales [[electronic resource] ] : a short introduction / / John C. Hirsh |
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Malden [MA], : Blackwell, 2003 |
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1-281-31084-0 |
9786611310844 |
0-470-77582-3 |
0-470-77693-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell introductions to literature |
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Poets, English - Middle English, 1100-1500 |
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature |
Tales, Medieval - History and criticism |
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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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Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales; Contents; Note on Illustrations; Preface; 1 Who Was Geoffrey Chaucer?; 2 Gender and Religion, Race and Class; 3 Others; 4 Love; 5 God; 6 Visions of Chaucer; 7 Death; 8 Conclusion; 9 Which Tale Was That? A Summary of the Canterbury Tales; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; List of Authors, Compilers, Editors, and Translators Referred to in the Select Bibliography; |
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This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.:.; Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry.; Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales.; Introduces students to the historical and relig |
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UNINA9910268954703321 |
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Donham Donald L (Donald Lewis) |
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The Erotics of History : An Atlantic African Example / / Donald L. Donham |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oakland, : University of California Press, 2018 |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 136 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
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Sex role - Africa - History |
Erotica - Africa - History |
Fetishism (Sexual behavior) - Africa - History |
Africa Social conditions History |
Africa Sexual behavior History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Heading south : an introduction -- Ethnography interruptus -- The concept of the fetish -- African origins -- The poverty of sexuality -- African sexual extraversion and getting in bed with Robert Mapplethorpe -- Para-ethnography, golf, and the internet -- White slavery -- Love and money, romance and scam -- Conclusion : towards an understanding of erotics. |
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"The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign |
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commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement."--Provided by publisher. |
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