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The Naked Text : Chaucer's Legend of Good Women / Sheila Delany.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delany, Sheila, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Political and social views.
- Women and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- Women in literature.
- Mythology, Classical, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 p.) : 1 frontisp.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prolocutory
- 1. Reading and Writing
- 2. Women, Nature, and Language
- 3. The Naked Text
- 4. Different and Same
- 5. A Gallery of Women
- Semi-Polemical Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520309791
- 0520309790
- OCLC:
- 1149420736
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