Queer Time, Queer Forms: Noir Medievalism and Patience Agbabi's "Telling Tales."

Author / Editor
Hsy, Jonathan, and Candace Barrington.

Title
Queer Time, Queer Forms: Noir Medievalism and Patience Agbabi's "Telling Tales."

Published
David Hadbawnik, ed. Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 159-77.

Description
Explores how the "circular and recursive form" of Agbabi's poetic adaptations of CT in her "Telling Tales" (2015) "showcases" the "queer time of medievalism and the queer form of adaptation." Focuses on Agbabi's versions of Mel ("Unfinished Business"), ClT ("I Go Back to May 1967"), and MLT ("Joined-Up Writing").

Contributor
Barrington, Candace.

Alternative Title
Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Man of Law and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Tale of Melibee