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SURREALISME --- SEXUALITE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- PSYCHANALYSE

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Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Cendrars, Blaise --- Seksualiteit in de literatuur --- Sex in literature --- Sexe dans la littérature --- Fictional works --- Roman

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English literature --- Drama --- Shakespeare, William --- Moi --- Shakespeare, william (1564-1616) --- Role selon le sexe dans la litterature --- Identite sexuelle --- Dans la litterature --- Personnages

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In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws on feminist and genre theory to argue that Chaucer's profound interest in the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity arises in large part from his experience of romance. In depicting the maturation of young women and men, romances stage an ideology of identity that is based in gender difference. Less obviously gendered concerns of romance--social hierarchy, magic, and adventure--are also involved in expressing femininity and masculinity. The genders prove to be not simply binary opposites but overlapping and shifting coreferents. Precarious social standing can carry a feminine taint; women's adventures recall but also contradict those of men. This lively study reveals that Chaucer's redeployments of romance are particularly sensitive to the crucial place gender holds in the genre.

ROLE SELON LE SEXE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FEMMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- IDENTITE SEXUELLE --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), 1340-1400 --- ROMAN COURTOIS ANGLAIS --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CANTERBURY TALES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Since Jeffrey Jerome Cohen edited The Postcolonial Middle Ages in 2000, some scholars have applied postcolonial criticism to the study of the Middle Ages. However, even in postcolonial studies of Chaucer, the role of non-European women in his work has not yet been fully discussed. Using postcolonial theory, the author explores how Chaucer represents non-European women, his Others both in gender and in culture. Her examination of non-European women in his work from a non-Westerner's point of view reveals that his representation is complicated and ambivalent, showing diverse views. The ambivalence in Chaucer reflects his own complicated position as courtier, soldier, minor diplomat, controller of customs and poet, and also the fourteenth century's historical background and attitude.

CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), 1340-1400 --- FEMMES --- ETHNICITE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- MINORITES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- DANS LA LITTERATURE