Chaucerotics Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde /

• Main Author: Gust, Geoffrey W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Poetry.; British literature.; Medieval Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; British and Irish Literature.

Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of "pornographic literary theory" to open up Chaucer's ribald poetry to fresh modes of analysis. By introducing and applying the notion of "Chaucerotics," this study...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Chaucerotics and the Problem of Medieval Pornography
• Chapter 1: Chaucerotics and the Cloak of Language in the Fabliaux
• Chapter 2: "Ther was the revel and the melodye": The Playful Cloak of Language in The Miller's Tale
• Chapter 3: "On this goode wyf he leith on soore": The Brutal Chauceroticism of The Reeve's Tale
• Chapter 4: "And in he throng": The Anti-Chivalric Chauceroticism of The Merchant's Tale
• Chapter 5: "And of his owene thought he wax al reed": Chaucerotics and the Poetics of Prostitution in The Shipman's Tale
• Chapter 6: "Swych feste it joye was to sene": On the Pornographic Possibilities of Troilus and Criseyde
• Conclusion: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.