LEADER 03801oam 2200709 a 450 001 9910495862803321 005 20230829001420.0 010 $a0-585-28252-8 035 $a(CKB)111004366709714 035 $a(MH)003280854-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000207794 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12074022 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207794 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238456 035 $a(PQKB)11230937 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366709714 100 $a19921130d1994 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe naked text $eChaucer's legend of good women /$fSheila Delany$b[electronic resource] 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 259 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-08119-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aA 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. 531 $aNAKED TEXT 531 $aNAKED TEXT: CHAUCER'S LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aMythology, Classical, in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWomen and literature$xHistory$yTo 1500$zEngland 606 $aMythology, Classical, in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aMythology, Classical, in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aMythology, Classical, in literature 615 0$aWomen in literature 615 7$aEnglish Literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a821/.1 700 $aDelany$b Sheila$01136033 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495862803321 996 $aThe naked text$92857073 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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