Anatomy of the Resisting Reader: The Implications of Resistence to Sexual Wordplay in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Anatomy of the Resisting Reader: The Implications of Resistence to Sexual Wordplay in Medieval Literature
- Published
- Straus, Barrie Ruth, ed. Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Special Issue of Exemplaria 4 (1992): 7-34.
- Description
- Critics' resistence to sexual wordplay in medieval texts such as Chaucer's TC and CT stems not only from a radical difference between medieval and modern standards of good taste, but also from the critics' desire to repress unsettling textual pluralism and polysemy to retain control over meaning.
- Contributor
- Straus, Barrie Ruth, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.