'Straw for Youre Gentillesse!': Masculine Identity, Honor, and Dorigen
- Author / Editor
- Englade, Emilio.
'Straw for Youre Gentillesse!': Masculine Identity, Honor, and Dorigen
- Published
- Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 5 : 34-57, 1998.
- Description
- Dorigen of FranT is "more important as a figure that reflects back on men and their desires than as a distinct character in herself." Englade applies Georges Bataille's "expenditure" theory to show that there is "no place for Dorigen within the bonds men form with each other" and that men's efforts at pursuing honor divide them.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.