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Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory

Bodies of Discourse

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  • © 2000

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  1. Robert S. Sturges
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 1-18

  3. Contexts: The Pardoner’s Genders, Sexes, Erotic Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Pardoner’s Genders: Linguistic and Other

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 21-33

    3. The Pardoner’s (Over-)Sexed Body

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 35-46

    4. The Pardoner’s Different Erotic Practices

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 47-59

  4. Readings: Bodies, Voices, Texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Pardoner Unveiled

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 63-80

    3. A Speaking and Singing Subject

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 81-105

    4. The Dismemberment of the Pardoner

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 107-139

    5. Conclusions

      • Robert S. Sturges
      Pages 141-168

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-232
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About this book

Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical - and sexual - identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

About the author

Robert S. Sturges is Professor of English at the University of New Orleans.

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