03801oam 2200709 a 450 991049586280332120230829001420.00-585-28252-8(CKB)111004366709714(MH)003280854-2(SSID)ssj0000207794(PQKBManifestationID)12074022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207794(PQKBWorkID)10238456(PQKB)11230937(EXLCZ)9911100436670971419921130d1994 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe naked text Chaucer's legend of good women /Sheila Delany[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Pressc19941 online resource (xi, 259 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-08119-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.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.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 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.NAKED TEXTNAKED TEXT: CHAUCER'S LEGEND OF GOOD WOMENWomen and literatureEnglandHistoryMythology, Classical, in literatureWomen in literatureWomen and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500Women and literatureHistoryTo 1500EnglandMythology, Classical, in literatureWomen in literatureEnglish LiteratureHILCCEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCWomen and literatureHistory.Mythology, Classical, in literature.Women in literature.Women and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryMythology, Classical, in literatureWomen in literatureEnglish LiteratureEnglishLanguages & Literatures821/.1Delany Sheila1136033DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910495862803321The naked text2857073UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress