The Homoerotic Underside in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale' and 'Reeve's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Frese, Dolores Warwick.
The Homoerotic Underside in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale' and 'Reeve's Tale'
- Published
- Michigan Academician 10 (1977): 143-50.
- Description
- MilT's heterosexual focus gains comic resonance from its homoerotic underside--clearly present in Absolon's branding of Nicholas and the anal inversion of the oral functions of kissing and speaking. In its emphasis on vindictive sexuality, RvT denies the erotic and thereby strips the homoerotic of its importance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.