Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People.
- Author / Editor
- Pavlinich, Elan Justice.
Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People.
- Published
- New York: Routledge, 2023.
- Physical Description
- ix, 175 pp.; 16 b&w illus.
- Series
- Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Description
- Explores how various texts of medievalism (graphic novels, retellings, rap music, performance art, etc.) "represent radical, nontraditional sex acts enjoyed by people who are typically excluded from both popular culture and medieval narratives" and "challenge pervasive power structures that privilege heterosexual male dominance." Chapter 3, “The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi's 'The Kiss,'" compares multilingual allusions to cunnilingus in Patience Agbabi’s adaptation of MilT with Chaucer's narrative and French analogues. Chapter 4, "BDSMedievalism: Past, Power, Pain/Pleasure," includes discussion of Troilus's submission to Criseyde in TC as a form of consensual adult sadomasochism.
- Alternative Title
- The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi's "The Kiss"
BDSMedievalism: Past, Power, Pain/Pleasure
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Miller and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde