Queering the Middle AgesGlenn Burger, Steven F. Kruger U of Minnesota Press - 318 Seiten The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, "queers" stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways. While not denying the force of gender and sexual norms, the authors consider how historical work has written out or over what might have been non-normative in medieval sex and culture, and they work to restore a sense of such instabilities. At the same time, they ask how this pursuit might allow us not only to re-envision medieval studies but also to rethink how we study culture from our current set of vantage points within postmodernity. The authors focus on particular medieval moments: Christine de Pizan's representation of female sexuality; chastity in the Grail romances; the illustration of "the sodomite" in manuscript commentaries on Dante's Commedia; the complex ways that sexuality inflected English national politics at the time of Edward II's deposition; the construction of the sodomitic Moor by Reconquista Spain. Throughout, their work seeks to disturb a logic that sees the past as significant only insofar as it may make sense for and of a stabilized present. |
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... effect of its very citation . 2 Queer theory , in exposing the fictionality of such constructions — the ways in which supposed causes do not precede their effects but are instead themselves the ( ideological ) effects and justifications ...
... effect of its very citation . 2 Queer theory , in exposing the fictionality of such constructions — the ways in which supposed causes do not precede their effects but are instead themselves the ( ideological ) effects and justifications ...
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... effect of a particular human understanding of " proper " sexuality , and in a myth of nature , considered separate from and prior to the cultural but in fact an effect constructed from within culture to serve particular cultural ends ...
... effect of a particular human understanding of " proper " sexuality , and in a myth of nature , considered separate from and prior to the cultural but in fact an effect constructed from within culture to serve particular cultural ends ...
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... effects of retrospection ? In other words , might we need ( preposterously ) to rethink what we have come to know as the Middle Ages not as preceding modernity but as the effect of a cer- tain self - construction of the modern , which ...
... effects of retrospection ? In other words , might we need ( preposterously ) to rethink what we have come to know as the Middle Ages not as preceding modernity but as the effect of a cer- tain self - construction of the modern , which ...
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... effect of defining what sexual be- haviour is suitable for a woman : a woman must submit to an appropri- ate male , and must not herself be the instigator of the sexual act . " 38 Even in glossing the object of Pasiphae's desire as a ...
... effect of defining what sexual be- haviour is suitable for a woman : a woman must submit to an appropri- ate male , and must not herself be the instigator of the sexual act . " 38 Even in glossing the object of Pasiphae's desire as a ...
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SODOMYS MARK ALAN OF LILLE JEAN DE MEUN AND THE MEDIEVAL THEORY OF AUTHORSHIP | 30 |
THE POSE OF THE QUEER DANTES GAZE BRUNETTO LATINIS BODY | 59 |
PRESIDENTIAL IMPROPRIETIES AND MEDIEVAL CATEGORIES THE ABSURDITY OF HETEROSEXUALITY | 89 |
THE SODOMITIC MOOR QUEERNESS IN THE NARRATIVE OF RECONQUISTA | 101 |
CHASTE SUBJECTS GENDER HEROISM AND DESIRE IN THE GRAIL QUEST | 125 |
THE KINGS BOYFRIEND FROISSARTS POLITICAL THEATER OF 1326 | 145 |
JUST LIKE A WOMAN QUEER HISTORY WOMANIZING THE BODY AND THE BOYS IN ARNAUDS BAND | 170 |
TRANSLATING THE FORESKIN | 195 |
SHAMEFUL PLEASURES UP CLOSE AND DIRTY WITH CHAUCER FLESH AND THE WORD | 215 |
ECCE HOMO | 238 |
MEDIEVALPOSTMODERN HIVAIDS AND THE TEMPORALITY OF CRISIS | 254 |
RETURN OF THE REPRESSED THE SEQUEL | 286 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 301 |
Index of Proper Names and Titles of Anonymous Works | 307 |
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Seite xxiv - Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex...
Seite 2 - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), and Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
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Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality James A. Schultz Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |
Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales Mark Miller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |