TY - BOOK ID - 3114801 TI - The English "Loathly Lady" tales : boundaries, traditions, motifs. AU - Passmore, S. Elizabeth AU - Carter, Susan PY - 2007 VL - 48 SN - 9781580441230 9781580441247 1580441238 1580441246 PB - Kalamazoo Medieval Institute Publications DB - UniCat KW - 820 "04/14" KW - Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen KW - 820 "04/14" Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen KW - English poetry KW - Women in literature. KW - Metamorphosis in literature. KW - Counseling in literature. KW - Sovereignty in literature. KW - Romances, English KW - Ballads, English KW - Ballads, English. KW - Romances, English. KW - Frau KW - Mittelenglische Literatur KW - Mittelenglisch. KW - Motiv (Literatur). KW - Frau. KW - Metamorphose (Mythologie). KW - Lyrik. KW - Versdichtung. KW - History and criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - Middle English. KW - Motiv KW - Mittelenglische Literatur. KW - Gower, John, KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Gawain, KW - Gawain. KW - Gower, John; Confessio amantis. KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey; The Canterbury tales. KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey KW - Romances KW - Studies. KW - Confessio amantis (Gower, John). KW - Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey). KW - 1100 - 1500. KW - England. KW - Gauvain (personnage fictif) KW - Gower, John (1325?-1408). Confessio amantis KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The wife of bath's tale KW - Poésie anglaise KW - Femmes KW - Métamorphose (littérature) KW - Souveraineté KW - Roman courtois anglais KW - Ballades anglaises KW - Histoire et critique KW - 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) KW - Dans la littérature KW - Angleterre (GB) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3114801 AB - “In the earliest versions [of the Loathly Lady tales], the Irish sovereignty hag tales, her excessive body allegorizes the nature of sovereignty; the Loathly Lady is the shape of success in power contestation. Because the vehicle of the allegory is gendered, however, and because the motif’s fictional flesh is sexually active, these ideas about control are entangled with personal power politics. These factors make the motif curiously promiscuous, an intersection of ideas that generates other ideas, sometimes unexpectedly, always provocatively. . . . “ This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and John Gower’s “Tale of Florent” are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,” the balladic versions—the “Marriage of Sir Gawain” and “King Henry” (and even “Thomas of Erceldoune”)—all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heretosexual relations, and about national identity.”—from the Introduction ER -