Chaucer's visions of manhood [[electronic resource] /] / Holly A. Crocker
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| Autore: |
Crocker Holly A (Holly Adryan), <1971->
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| Titolo: |
Chaucer's visions of manhood [[electronic resource] /] / Holly A. Crocker
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| Pubblicazione: | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Masculinity in literature |
| Men in literature | |
| Sex role in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Chaucer's Visions of Manhood; 1 Seeing Gender's Aspects: Vision, Agency, and Masculinity in the Tale of Melibee; 2 Portrait of a Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physician's Tale; 3 "My first matere I wil yow telle": Visual Impact in the Book of the Duchess; 4 Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility between Chaucer's Wife and Shipman; 5 Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in Harley 7333; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Chaucer's visions of manhood |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36271-9 |
| 9786611362713 | |
| 0-230-60492-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784247303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New Middle Ages.