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BL
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1029723
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b784093
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| Main Entry
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Pugh, Tison.
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| Title & Author
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Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature /\ Tison Pugh.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, N.Y. :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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The new Middle Ages
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| Page. NO
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xii, 220 pages ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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1403984875
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: 9781403984876
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-213) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature -- Abandoning desires, desiring readers, and the divinely queer triangle of Pearl -- Queering Harry Bailly: gendered carnival, social ideologies, and masculinity under duress in the Cantebury Tales -- "He nedes moot unto the pley assente": queer fidelities and contractual hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale -- From boys to men to hermaphrodites to eunuchs: queer formations of romance masculinity and the hagiographic death drive in Amis and Amiloun -- Queer castration, patriarchal privilege, and the comic phallus in Eger and Grime -- Conclusion: compulsory queerness and the pleasures of medievalism.
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| Abstract
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"Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales, Pearl, Amis and Amiloun, and Eger and Grime, Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected, no matter how appealing such queerness might remain at the story's end. Masculinity itself is thus revealed to be a queer performance, one which heroic protagonists of medieval narratives embody while nonetheless highlighting its constricting limitations."--Jacket.
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English literature-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Heterosexuality in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Gender Identity-- history.
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Homosexuality-- history.
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Sex-- history.
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18.05 English literature.
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English literature-- Middle English.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Heterosexuality in literature.
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Homosexualität
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Literatur
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Männlichkeit
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Mittelenglisch
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Mittelenglisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/35380902
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| LC Classification
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PR275.G44P84 2008
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18.05bcl
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HH 4061rvk
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