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Record Number:
6819
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Burger , Glenn.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Erotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee, I Like My Boys To Be Girls": Inventing With the Body in Chaucer's "Millers Tale"
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1997. Pages 245 - 260.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
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Body
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Knight's Tale
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Miller's Tale
Literature- Verse
Masculinity in Literature
Violence in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
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Abstract:
This essay details ways that "The Miller's Tale" resists the sadism constructing medieval hegemonic masculinity by desiring instead a "desexualized" body operating within, yet not completely controlled by, the ideological structures of desire. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing at http://www.garlandpub.com].
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1997.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815328362