Shameful Pleasures : Up Close and Dirty with Chaucer, Flesh, and the Word
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Shameful Pleasures : Up Close and Dirty with Chaucer, Flesh, and the Word
- Published
- Glenn Burger and Steven Kruger, eds. Queering the Middle Ages (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), pp. 213-35.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer set the standard for discourse on heterosexuality and modernity, even though modern study has written over his "queer touch." Exemplifies the gendered instability of Chaucer's text by contrasting the normativizing power of marriage and queer performativity. For a response, see Larry Scanlon's "Return of the Repressed," pp. 284-301 in the same volume.
- Alternative Title
- Queering the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.