"A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon:" Constructions of Genealogy in the "Clerk's Tale" and the "Man of Law's Tale."
This article offers poetry criticism of the poems "Clerk's Tale" and "Man of Law's Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. It outlines the construction of autonomous male genealogy which suggests that it leads to a pair of contradiction. It examines the patriarchal fantasy of autonomous male reproduction of the...
| Publicado en: | Chaucer Review Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 25 - 61 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2009
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| Sumario: | This article offers poetry criticism of the poems "Clerk's Tale" and "Man of Law's Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. It outlines the construction of autonomous male genealogy which suggests that it leads to a pair of contradiction. It examines the patriarchal fantasy of autonomous male reproduction of the patriline and the desire to imagine male lineages as self-reproducing without the interference of maternal influence. |
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