Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The New Middle Ages
ISBN-10
140396341X
ISBN-13
9781403963413
Edition
2007 ed.
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2007
Print length
218 Pages
Weight
386 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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This book explores the rich, complex, literary tradition of the medieval go-between. Idealized going between usually leads to marriage and it develops a new dimension of the much debated question of courtly love and woman's part in it. Chaucer's Pandarus's place in this go-between tradition is a tour de force.
This book offers a compelling portrayal of two contrasting figures who bring couples together for romantic love or sex: elegant aristocrats who serve idealized consensual lovers, and ancient crones who capture women for a price. Via a sweeping tour of 45 medieval works from three centuries--Latin comedies, fabliaux, romances, the Roman de la rose, the Book of Good Love, and many others-Mieszkowski reveals a previously unsuspected dimension of Chaucer''s Troilus and Criseyde. An idealized go-between in every outward respect, Pandarus nevertheless acts the part of a go-between for sexual conquest, trapping the woman for the man. Through Pandarus''s simultaneous identification with the go-between tradition''s contradictory ideologies of desire, Chaucer suspends Troilus and Criseyde''s story irreconcilably between lust and idealized romantic love.
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