Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde

by Geoffrey W. Gust

Book Overview

Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of "pornographic literary theory" to open up Chaucer's ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis. By introducing and applying the notion of "Chaucerotics," this study argues for a more historically-nuanced and theoretically-sophisticated understanding of the obscene content in Chaucer's fabliaux and Troilus and Criseyde. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030078450
• ISBN13: 9783030078454
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"