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Record Number:
4758
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Title:
Reading Chaucer Reading Rape
Source:
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose. The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Pages 21 - 60.
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Article Type:
Essay
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales
Feminist Theory
Literature- Verse
Patriarchy in Literature
Rape in Literature
Rhetoric
Sexual Violence in Literature
Tropes
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Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
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Rose explores Chaucer's uses of rape as a trope, where he displaces the focus on sexual violence against the female and replaces it with concern for contentions among men. Reading these rapes as both sexual violence and trope, however, enriches our interpretation of Chaucer's texts, enabling us to apprehend the dark societal issues surrounding rape beneath the dazzling aesthetic "pley" of the poetry. [Reproduced by permission of Palgrave].
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Year of Publication:
2001.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0312236484