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The mythographic Chaucer : the fabulation of sexual politics / Jane Chance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chance, Jane, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role in literature.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Sex (Psychology) in literature.
- Sex--Political aspects--England--History.
- Sex.
- Mythology, Classical, in literature.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Political and social views.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Knowledge--Mythology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jane Chance reveals how the concealment of embarrassing secrets often sexual in nature and the burden of political alliances and strategies-what might together be termed sexual politics-motivated Chaucer in much of his work. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, she shows how he manipulated the mythographic and textual conventions of the period for his own literary, social, and political purposes.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse""; Part 1. Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions; Part 2. Mythographic Cross-Gendering in the Troilus; Part 3. Subversive Mythography: The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8519-3
- OCLC:
- 476093715
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