TY - BOOK ID - 33058703 TI - Chaucerotics : Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde PY - 2018 SN - 3319897454 3319897462 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature. KW - Literature, Medieval. KW - Poetry. KW - British literature. KW - Medieval Literature. KW - Poetry and Poetics. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - Poems KW - Poetry KW - Verses (Poetry) KW - Literature KW - European literature KW - Medieval literature KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Philosophy KW - Sex in literature. KW - Human body in literature. KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33058703 AB - 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 argues for a more historically-nuanced and theoretically-sophisticated understanding of the obscene content in Chaucer’s fabliaux and Troilus and Criseyde. This book demonstrates that the sexually suggestive language of this magisterial Middle English poet could stimulate and titillate various literary audiences in late medieval England, and even goes so far as to suggest that Chaucer might well be understood as the “Father of English pornography” for playing a notable, liminal role in the development of porn as a literary genre. In making this case, Geoffrey W. Gust presents an insightful account of an important intellectual issue and opens up the subject of premodern pornography to consideration in a way that is new and highly provocative. . ER -