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  1. Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature
    Author: Pugh, Tison
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y.

    This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected. This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime, Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230610521
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series: The new Middle Ages
    Subjects: Heterosexuality in literature; Gender identity in literature; English literature; Homosexuality in literature; English literature; Gender identity in literature; Heterosexuality in literature; Homosexuality in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 220 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature; 2 Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl; 3 Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity under Duress in the Canterbury Tales; 4 "He nedes moot unto the pley assente": Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale; 5 From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun

    6 Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Grime7 Conclusion: Compulsory Queerness and the Pleasures of Medievalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index