How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
- Author / Editor
- Dinshaw, Carolyn.
How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
- Published
- Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- ix, 251 pp.
- Description
- Addresses queer readings and the asynchrony of time within medieval tales in relation to "amateur medievalists" and scholars. Study includes discussion of temporality, queer historicism, and autobiographical anecdotes, providing a fresh way of thinking about scholarly approaches to medieval studies and medievalism. Discusses relationship between "past and present" in comparing CT with1944 film "A Canterbury Tale," written and directed by Michael Powell.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Canterbury Tales--General