Masculinities in Chaucer : approaches to maleness in the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde

edited by Peter G. Beidler

How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales?" How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such a thing as a distinct 'Chaucerian masculinity', or does it appear in a multitude of different forms? These are some of the questions that the contributors to this ground-breaking and provocative volume attempt to answer, using a diversity of critical methods and theories. Some look at the behaviour of noble or knightly men; some at clerics, or businessmen, or churls; others examine the so-called 'masculine' qualities of female characters, and the 'feminine' qualities of male characters. Topics include: the Host's bourgeois masculinity; the erotic triangles operating in the Miller's Tale; why Chaucer 'diminished' the sexuality of Sir Thopas; and whether Troilus is effeminate, impotent or an example of true manhood. Peter G. Beidler is the Lucy G. Moses distinguished Professor of English at Lehigh University. Contributors are: Mark Allen, Patricia Clare Ingham, Martin Blum, Daniel F. Pigg, Elizabeth M. Biebel, Jean E. Jost, Carol Everest, Andrea Rossi-Reder, Glenn Burger, Peter G. Beidler, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Daniel Rubey, Michael D. Sharp, Paul R. Thomas, Stephanie Dietrich, Maud Burnett Mcinerney, and Derek Brewer.

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[目次]

  • Part 1 "Canterbury Tales": mirth and bourgeois masculinity in Chaucer's Host, Mark Allen
  • homosociality and creative masculinity in the "Knight's Tale", Patricia Clare Ingham
  • mediating masculinities - erotic triangles in the "Miller's Tale", Martin Blum
  • performing the perverse - the abuse of masculine power in the "Reeve's Tale", Daniel F. Pigg
  • a wife, a batterer, a rapist - representations of "masculinity" in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale", Elizabeth M. Biebel
  • ambiguous brotherhood in the "Merchant's Tale", Jean E. Jost
  • sight and sexual performance in the "Merchant's Tale", Carol Everest
  • male movement and female fixity in the "Franklin's Tale" and "Il Filocolo", Andrea Rossi-Reder
  • doing what comes naturally - the "Physician's Tale" and the Pardoner, Glenn Burger
  • contrasting masculinity in Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas", Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
  • the five wounds of Melibee's daughter - transforming masculinities, Daniel Rubey
  • reading Chaucer's "manly man" - the trouble with masculinity in the "Monk's Prologue" and "Tale", Michael D. Sharp
  • "Have ye no mannes herte?" - Chauntecleer as cock-man in the "Nun's Priest's Tale", Paul R. Thomas. Part 2 "Troilus and Criseyde": "slydyng" masculinity in the four portraits of Troilus, Stephanie Dietrich
  • "Is this a mannes herte?" - unmanning Troilus through Ovidian allusion, Maud Burnett McInerney
  • Troilus's "gentil" manhood, Derek Brewer.

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書名 Masculinities in Chaucer : approaches to maleness in the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde
著作者等 Beidler, Peter G.
シリーズ名 Chaucer studies
出版元 D.S. Brewer
刊行年月 1998
ページ数 x, 252 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0859914348
NCID BA34213800
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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