Dominant medieval discourses on gender; pervavsive competition and fragile control - Chaucer's appraisal of masculine stereotypes in the frame narrative; the heroic discourse - the "Knight's Tale"; men in love and competition - the "Miller's Tale" and the "Merchant's Tale"; competing ideas - Chaucer's clerks and academic disputes; spirituality and competition; masculinity, representations of ideal femininity in men's narratives, and the challenge; "female" narrators and Chaucer's masquerade - the second Nun, the Prioress, and the Wife of Bath.
`Laskaya surveys the various ways in which Chaucer explores the
full range of late 14th-century ideals of masculinity, and then
examines how women are figured in the tales of both male and female
pilgrims... provides a refreshing perspective on familiar
territory, but her most interesting and innovative work is to be
found in her reading of the three women who join the tale-telling
competition.
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