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In Chaucer's texts amatory acts are often correlated with literary acts; for him, literary activity is always a gendered activity. Writing in the context of a resolutely patriarchal culture, Chaucer's acts of interpretation are masculine activities. Carolyn Dinshaw's work is based on the idea that gendered relations such as courtship, marriage and betrayal do not simply provide plot elements in Chaucer's work but are in fact central to an understanding of Chaucer's poetics. In her readings of Chaucer's texts, Dinshaw argues that he demonstrates both his investment in patriarchal discourse and his awareness of its limitations. Dinshaw traces Chaucer's explorations of writing and gender in his major works. In ""Troilus and Criseyde"" and the ""Legend of Good Women"" Chaucer creates an emphatically masculine narrator who atttempts to control - and finally rejects - the unruly feminine in all its textual forms: he rejects both earthly love and the ""carnal"" letter of the pagan text. In ""The Canterbury Tales"", the Man of Law also tries to control the feminine, whch emerges in the contradictions and problematic gaps that open up in his narrative. The Wife of Bath, who responds energetically to the Man of Law's performance, represents everything the Man of Law tries to suppress. The Clerk, and finally the Pardoner, point toward a profound critique of a patriarchal hermeneutic model, especially of its gender distinctions. In bringing together modern theory and a medieval writer, Dinshaw demonstrates the existence of a long tradition of patriarchal thinking - and a long tradition of feminist critique.… (altro)
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For A. J. S.
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(Intro)
"Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn" offers a brief glimpse of the fourteenth-century poet at work, allows us a rare exposure to the material circumstances and social relationships involved in late-medieval literary activity.
(Chap 1)
I want to begin this analysis of Troilus and Criseyde by considering two famous readings of the poem, famous in themselves and famously at odds with each other.
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So completely unlike the others around him, so far outside the categories by which they operate that he isn't even their Other, the Pardoner, not-man, not-woman, is the unlikely but best pilgrim for this task on the road to Canterbury; for in the ideal Christian society too, according to Saint Paul, "non est masculus neque femina" (Galatians 3:28).
In Chaucer's texts amatory acts are often correlated with literary acts; for him, literary activity is always a gendered activity. Writing in the context of a resolutely patriarchal culture, Chaucer's acts of interpretation are masculine activities. Carolyn Dinshaw's work is based on the idea that gendered relations such as courtship, marriage and betrayal do not simply provide plot elements in Chaucer's work but are in fact central to an understanding of Chaucer's poetics. In her readings of Chaucer's texts, Dinshaw argues that he demonstrates both his investment in patriarchal discourse and his awareness of its limitations. Dinshaw traces Chaucer's explorations of writing and gender in his major works. In ""Troilus and Criseyde"" and the ""Legend of Good Women"" Chaucer creates an emphatically masculine narrator who atttempts to control - and finally rejects - the unruly feminine in all its textual forms: he rejects both earthly love and the ""carnal"" letter of the pagan text. In ""The Canterbury Tales"", the Man of Law also tries to control the feminine, whch emerges in the contradictions and problematic gaps that open up in his narrative. The Wife of Bath, who responds energetically to the Man of Law's performance, represents everything the Man of Law tries to suppress. The Clerk, and finally the Pardoner, point toward a profound critique of a patriarchal hermeneutic model, especially of its gender distinctions. In bringing together modern theory and a medieval writer, Dinshaw demonstrates the existence of a long tradition of patriarchal thinking - and a long tradition of feminist critique.