The State of Exception and Sovereign Masculinity in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Sturges, Robert S.
The State of Exception and Sovereign Masculinity in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 28-42.
- Description
- Sturges applies Giorgio Agamben's theory of sovereignty to TC, exploring shifting figures of sovereignty in the poem (the people, parliament, Hector) and measuring the extent to which Troilus and Criseyde live in a "state of exception" (an Agambenian political concept), subject to gendered versions of sovereignty.
- Alternative Title
- Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde