Man, Men, and Woman in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Man, Men, and Woman in Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 154-76, 276-84 (notes).
- Description
- Argues that "Chaucer--drawing on a long tradition of Biblical commentary--is well aware of the sexual dimensions of word choice, even of the double meaning of 'man'." He "plays on the relationship between naming and sexual differentiation";explores the ideology of "courtly game-playing"; and "subjects all the conventional literary treatments of women by men . . . to a debunking examination of motive.
- Fyler examines motifs and language in Mel, MLT, MerT, NPT, PhyT, FranT, WBP, SNT, ClT, KnT, MkT, ShT, SqT, TC, BD, LGW,PF, and Rom.
- Alternative Title
- Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.