Title: Queering Medieval genres
Description: "Queering Medieval Genres proposes that, within the historical trajectory of many genres, certain agents are privileged while others are marginalized due to their understanding of heteronormative social codes. Examining the ways in which homosexuality disrupts generic and cultural expectations of heteronormativity, this book demonstrates that the introduction of the queer within medieval literature shatters the audience's expectations of textual pleasure and demands that they reconsider the effects of homosexuality on their constructions of sexual and spiritual identity.

"Scholars of medieval literature will appreciate the fresh insights that queer genre theory provides on critical texts of the period: additionally, Queering Medieval Genres outlines a hermeneutic device with which to analyze literature of other historical periods as well"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, English poetry, French poetry, Gawain (Legendary character), Gawain and the Grene Knight, History, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Homosexuality in literature, Literary form, Medieval Rhetoric, Romances, Sex in literature, Sexual orientation in literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gays, history
Places: England, France
People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: Middle English, 1100-1500, To 1500