Title: Chaucer's Pardoner and gender theory
First published: 2000
Description: "Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the Pardoner, examines the character 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 promodern 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Storytelling in literature, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Clergy in literature, Homosexuality and literature, Sex in literature, Body, Human, in literature, History, Sex role in literature, Gender identity in literature, Sexual orientation in literature, Human body in literature, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, study and teaching
Places: England
People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PR1868.P3 S78 2000