Queering Medieval Genres

2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6432-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pugh, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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