Queering Medieval Genres

Queering Medieval Genres

by T. Pugh
Queering Medieval Genres

Queering Medieval Genres

by T. Pugh

Hardcover(2005)

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Overview

Queering Medieval Genres proposes that, within the historical trajectory of many genres, certain agents are privileged while others are marginalized due to their understanding of heteronormative social codes. Examining the ways in which homosexuality disrupts generic and cultural expectations of heteronormativity, this book demonstrates that the introduction of the queer within medieval literature shatters the audience's expectations of textual pleasure and demands that they reconsider the effects of homosexuality on their constructions of sexual and spiritual identity. Scholars of medieval literature will appreciate the fresh insights that queer genre theory provides on critical texts of the period; additionally, Queering Medieval Genres outlines a hermeneutic device with which to analyze literature of other historical periods as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403964328
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 08/31/2005
Series: The New Middle Ages
Edition description: 2005
Pages: 227
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Tison Pugh is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Queering Medieval Genres Queering the Lyrics: Personae, Same-Sex Desire, and Salvation in the Poetry of Marbod of Rennes, Baudri of Bourgueil, and Hildebert of Lavardin Chaucer's Queering Fabliaux Queering Tragedy: Queer Desires and Queering Genres in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde Queering Arthurian Romance: Genres, Godgames, and Sado-Masochism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Conclusion: Queering Genres, Medieval Ideology, and Today's Readers Works Cited
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