The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics

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U of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 378 pages
 

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Introduction Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse
1
PART 1 Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions
17
A wonder thing The Descensus ad Inferos of the Female Heroes Alcyone and Alceste
19
Geffrey as Dido Ganymede Marcia Mythographic and Gender Parody in the Hous of Fame
45
Venus Contextualized The Mythographic Authority of the Body in The Parlement of Foules
83
PART 2 Mythographic CrossGendering in the Troilus
105
The Narrator as Mythographic Glossator The Rape of Criseyde
107
The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales
169
Feminizing Theseus in the Knights Tale The Victory of Pallas Athena over Mars
184
Maister Alisouns Feminist SelfMythography
214
The Merchants De Nuptiis Maii et Januarii
232
The Franklins Derke Fantasye Squire Aurelius as Ekko Lady Dorigen as Narcissuss Image
249
Conclusion The Artist Pygmalion the Subject Chaucer and SelfSeduction
263
Notes
283
Index
353
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Zephirus Rape and Saint Thomas à Becket The Political Vernacular
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