The Medieval Borderline Identities: The Guildsmen in History and in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Yıldız, Nazan.
The Medieval Borderline Identities: The Guildsmen in History and in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (2022): 83-97.
- Description
- Uses Homi Bhabha's concepts of borderline community and mimicry ("The Location of Culture" [1994]) to investigate the descriptions of the guildsmen in GP, 361-78, as they relate to shifts and tensions in Chaucer’s contemporary society, focusing on "othering" within traditional hierarchy and on sartorial mimicry. Includes historical and literary information about guildsmen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales