Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-sex Desire in the 14th Century (1st ed. 2003) (The New Middle Ages)
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- Synopsis
- 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 bonds are rendered sodomitically-inflected, dangerous attachments in chronicle narratives of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II.
- Copyright:
- 2003
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781137094568
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781349730667
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
- Date of Addition:
- 12/13/20
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- Language:
- English
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- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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