'Slyding' Masculinity in the Four Portraits of Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Dietrich, Stephanie.
'Slyding' Masculinity in the Four Portraits of Troilus
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde" (Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 205-20.
- Description
- The characterization of the male hero in the four portraits of Troilus exhibits "gender slippage" through "linguistic slippage." The second and third portraits show Chaucer subverting gender assumptions, while the other two are more "essentialized" depictions of masculinity.
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.