Queering Medieval Genres
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Queering Medieval Genres
- Published
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Physical Description
- x, 226 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Pugh assesses the "nonnormative" features of several genres in medieval literature--lyric, fabliau, tragedy, and romance--exploring not only representations and suggestions of homosexual behaviors but also how these behaviors disrupt readers' expectations of genre and ideological power.
- One chapter considers Latin lyrics; another, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Two chapters pertain to Chaucer: one focuses on adaptations of genre expectation compelled by heteronormativity in the fabliaux of CT (especially MilT and WBPT, but others as well); the other, on how Pandarus's relations with Troilus in TC suggest resistance to courtly codes, Christian teleology, and the genre of tragedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.