Good Vibrations : John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault
- Author / Editor
- Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Good Vibrations : John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault
- Published
- Carolyn Dinshaw. Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1999), pp. 100-142.
- Description
- Explores how the Pardoner and his interruption of WBP challenge the heteronormativity of CT. The opening lines of GP and WBT establish a heterosexual norm that the presence of the Pardoner challenges by making clear the constructed and contestable nature of the norm, a challenge similar to Lollard heterodoxy. Observes similarities between CkT and a London record of a cross-dressing prostitute; argues that fiction and archives can together be used to construct a queer history, important to a queer future.
- Alternative Title
- Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Cook and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.