The Mythographic Chaucer

Fabulation of Sexual Politics

By: Jane Chance

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Paperback | 4 January 1995

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Provides a many-sided look at the poems of Chaucer and the sexual politics of his day.

The concealment of embarrassing, often sexual, secrets and the burden of political alliances and strategies-in short, sexual politics-motivated Chaucer in much of his work. This concept, long suspected but mostly ignored by Chaucer critics, finally receives its first full treatment in The Mythographic Chaucer. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, Jane Chance shows how he inverted the mythographic and textual conventions of the period for his own literary, social, and political purposes.

Comparing significant mythological images, references, and figures in Chaucerian poems with those of other medieval mythographers, Chance discloses Chaucer's ironic use of mythographic tradition to disguise the scandalous and politically sensitive. Here we see, for instance, how Chaucer relied on the medieval model of poetic concealment to construct the fabulation (the narratio fabulosa, itself a medieval techne) of sexual politics.

This analysis gives us a rich sense of the complexity of Chaucer's mythographic options and his playful employment of contextual material as he rewrote-and tried to resolve-tensions among vernacular, classical, and Christian (sometimes Hebraic) scriptural and textual traditions. Invaluable to an understanding of Chaucer, this book is also instructive in showing how mythographic analysis can combine "traditional" literary elucidation with the issues of contemporary cultural theory.

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Non-Fiction Psychology Sexual Behaviour Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets Poetry

Abbreviations
A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse"	p. 1
Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions
"A wonder thing": The Descensus ad Inferos of the Female Heroes Alcyone and Alceste	p. 19
"Geffrey" as Dido, Ganymede, "Marcia": Mythographic and Gender Parody in the Hous of Fame	p. 45
Venus Contextualized: The Mythographic Authority of the Body in The Parlement of Foules	p. 83
Mythographic Cross-Gendering in the Troilus
The Narrator as Mythographic Glossator: The Rape of Criseyde	p. 107
Subversive Mythography: The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales
Zephirus, Rape, and Saint Thomas a Becket: The Political Vernacular	p. 171
Feminizing Theseus in the Knight's Tale: The Victory of Pallas Athena over Mars	p. 184
Maister Alisoun's Feminist Self-Mythography	p. 214
The Merchant's De Nuptiis Maii et Januarii	p. 232
The Franklin's Derke Fantasye: Squire Aurelius as Ekko, Lady Dorigen as Narcissus's Image	p. 249
Conclusion: The Artist Pygmalion, the Subject Chaucer, and Self-Seduction	p. 263
Notes	p. 283
Index	p. 353
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