Conquering the Reign of Femeny

Conquering the Reign of Femeny
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Publisher : DS Brewer
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 0859914607
ISBN-13 : 9780859914604
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Book Synopsis Conquering the Reign of Femeny by : Angela Jane Weisl

Download or read book Conquering the Reign of Femeny written by Angela Jane Weisl and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore and challenge this genre. She argues that Chaucer's complex treatment of the romance, following both continental and Middle English traditions, experiments with and tests romance conventions. Each chapter looks indetail at one or more of Chaucer's works, examining their different approaches to the problems of gender, and showing how this is closely connected with genre. Subjects addressed include the feminised private spaces in Troilus and Criseydewhich protect Criseyde, but are inevitably penetrated by male power; the masculine imperatives of the epic which challenge the limits of the feminised romance in the Knight'sTale(and the speech of its heroine Emelye, who questions the assumptions of the genre itself); Canacee in the Squire's Tale, who rejects the stereotyped role of the heroine, and the romance world in the Tale of SirThopas, without a heroine at all.Dr ANGELA JANE WEISLis visiting assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio.


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