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OverviewProvides a many-sided look at the poems of Chaucer and the sexual politics of his day. The concealment of embarrassing, often sexual, secrets and the burden of political alliances and strategies-in short, sexual politics-motivated Chaucer in much of his work. This concept, long suspected but mostly ignored by Chaucer critics, finally receives its first full treatment in The Mythographic Chaucer. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, Jane Chance shows how he inverted the mythographic and textual conventions of the period for his own literary, social, and political purposes. Comparing significant mythological images, references, and figures in Chaucerian poems with those of other medieval mythographers, Chance discloses Chaucer's ironic use of mythographic tradition to disguise the scandalous and politically sensitive. Here we see, for instance, how Chaucer relied on the medieval model of poetic concealment to construct the fabulation (the narratio fabulosa, itself a medieval techne) of sexual politics. This analysis gives us a rich sense of the complexity of Chaucer's mythographic options and his playful employment of contextual material as he rewrote-and tried to resolve-tensions among vernacular, classical, and Christian (sometimes Hebraic) scriptural and textual traditions. Invaluable to an understanding of Chaucer, this book is also instructive in showing how mythographic analysis can combine ""traditional"" literary elucidation with the issues of contemporary cultural theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane ChancePublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9780816622771ISBN 10: 0816622779 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 04 January 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJane Chance is professor of English at Rice University. She is the author of numerous books, including The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1975), Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England (1979), and Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986), and editor of The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (1990) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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