The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Margherita Gayle.
The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 214 pp.
- Description
- Six essays that treat literature as "another kind of history" by "problematizing the question of history both within and around medieval literature." Challenging historicist approaches, the essasy are deconstructive, psychoanalytic, and feminist, concerned with questions of literary origins and their relations with sexual difference and canonicity.
- Individual essays consider Margery Kempe, the Middle English "Juliana," the Harley Lyrics, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," BD, and TC. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search by the title of this volume.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.