"In Chaucer's Queer Poetics Susan Schibanoff displays a precise, almost encyclopedic, knowledge of the complex Chaucerian critical tradition operating and demonstrates an astute engagement with recent work in gender, sexuality and queer medievalist studies. Her provocative close readings of key texts influencing Chaucer, as well as her nuanced and original engagement with the Chaucerian dream visions themselves, should very usefully reorient the gaze of Chaucer studies to consider a poetics developing outside the laws of heterosexual, patriarchal, and nationalist authority." -- Glenn Burger, English and Medieval Studies, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY "In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff challenges the well established view that Chaucer's early poetry traces a three-step progression as Chaucer escapes from the constraints of an overly refined French court tradition by turning to muscular Italian models, finally achieving a distinctive English voice. Against this tradition, Schibanoff champions an alternative poetics that maybe loosely designated as "queer," one that is often expressed through a narrator who is a social outsider, that draws on strategies of listening, and that values fragmentary and polyphonic works. This powerful study is clearly written, well argued, and reflects the deep knowledge of a senior scholar and highly independent thinker." -- Andrew Taylor, Department of English, University of Ottawa
Susan Schibanoff is a professor in the Department of English and the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Hampshire.
"'Susan Schibanoff challenges the well established view that Chaucer's early poetry traces a three-step progression as Chaucer escapes from the constraints of an overly refined French court tradition by turning to muscular Italian models, finally achieving a distinctive English voice. Against this tradition, Schibanoff champions an alternative poetics that maybe loosely designated as 'queer,' one that is often expressed through a narrator who is a social outsider, that draws on strategies of listening, and that values fragmentary and polyphonic works. This powerful study reflects the deep knowledge of a senior scholar and highly independent thinker.' - Andrew Taylor, Department of English, University of Ottawa"
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