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T. Pugh, Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

T. Pugh, Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay

Tison Pugh, Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature,  New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, xi-220p. 

Isbn (ean13): 978-1-4039-8487-6

Recension par Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University) dans The Medieval Review (TMR 08.09.19, BMR-L Digest, Vol 20, Issue 32):


Présentation de l'éditeur:

Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literatureexposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend uponqueerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings ofsuch classic texts as The Canterbury Tales, Pearl, Amis and Amiloun, and Eger and Grime,Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed onlyafter queerness has been rejected, no matter how appealing suchqueerness might remain at the story's end. Masculinity itself is thusrevealed to be a queer performance, one which heroic protagonists ofmedieval narratives embody while nonetheless highlighting itsconstricting limitations.

Tison Pugh is Associate Professor of Englishat the University of Central Florida. He is the author of QueeringMedieval Genres and co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's“

Troilus and Criseyde” and the Shorter Poems.