Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312213664)

Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical - and sexual - identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

Author: Na Na
ISBN-10: 0312213662
ISBN-13: 9780312213664
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2000
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.63h x 5.86w x 0.95d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 92
Choice 09/01/2000 pg. 130
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 190