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Homoeroticism and Chivalry
Richard E. Zeikowitz
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Description for Homoeroticism and Chivalry
Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 373.
Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male ... Read more
Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403960429
SKU
V9781403960429
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99-15
About Richard E. Zeikowitz
RICHARD E. ZEIKOWITZ is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Alabama.
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