Isn't the Gaze Male?: Gender and the Visual Experience in the Romances of Chaucer and Malory
- Author / Editor
- Martin, Molly Anne.
Isn't the Gaze Male?: Gender and the Visual Experience in the Romances of Chaucer and Malory
- Published
- DAI A68.08 (2008): n.p.
- Description
- Using the medieval concepts of "intromissive optics" and the passive viewer, Martin suggests that Chaucer in TC, KnT, and MerT employs conventions from outside the romance genre at the moment of sight. She contrasts this technique with that of Malory, who works within and "validates" the romance genre.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale