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Record Number:
2405
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Kraman , Cynthia.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" [suggests that the female body, the Jewish text of the "Song of Songs," and the enclosed garden are all marginal elements that take on central importance at January's expense].
Source:
Medieval Women in Their Communities. Edited by Diane Watt. University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pages 138 - 154.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Bible Exegesis- Song of Songs
Body
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Merchant's Tale
Jews in Literature
Sexuality in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
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Abstract:
Related Resources:
"Cynthia Kraman's "Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'" argues that dominant cultures appropriate communities of the maginalized or "communities of otherness." In particular, she is interested in how Chaucer's "Merchant Tale" relies on paradoxes presented by concepts and marginal communities such as "the body of woman, the sexual body, landscape, and Jewish text" for some of its meaning and structure. (p. 138)" From the review written by Katherine L. French of "Medieval Women in Their Communities,"
"Medieval Review" (TMR ID: 96.12.11)
. [Reproduced by permission of the "Medieval Review."].
Author's Affiliation:
College of New Rochelle
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1997.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0802042899