Gender and Language in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine S.
Gender and Language in Chaucer
- Published
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
- Physical Description
- xii, 196 pp.
- Description
- A study of "the interconnectedness of gender, epistemology, and poetics in Chaucer's texts," focusing on "idioms of gender that attend narrative protocols of reflexitivity and appropriation." Examines the linguistic, discursive, and sexual ambiguities of the Wife of Bath (Chapter 1), as well as Criseyde's function as a metatextual, polysemous character (Chapter 2).
- In LGW, PhyT, SNT, MLT, and ClT, the suffering of women manifests various cultural codes (Chapter 3). Wom Unc, Form Age, Sted, For, Gent, Ros, and Wom Nob are narratives that "articulate gender categories in the absence of a fictive female" (Chapter 4), while in ManT the mother is significantly absent (Chapter 5). Sexually ambiguous, the Pardoner and the Summoner represent an equally ambiguous gendered poetic (Chapter 6).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Against Women Unconstant.
- Former Age.
- Lak of Stedfastnesse.
- Fortune.
- Gentilesse.
- To Rosemounde.
- Womanly Noblesse.
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.