Chaucer's Cultural Geography

Kathryn L. Lynch, Kathryn L. Lynch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135309596
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This compilation of new essays and essays published over the past fifty years explores Chaucer's experiences with the cultural other, especially Chaucer's relationship to Far Eastern, Islamic, and African sources. While studies of Chaucer's orientalism have heretofore focused on the Squire's Tale, Chaucer's Cultural Geography considers many different Chaucerian works in the context of sexual geographies and colonizing and postcolonizing discourses. It comes at a time when critical methodology is being debated and a variety of approaches to Chacuer studies using modes of analyses normally reserved for later periods, including Said's orientalism theories, Dollimore's transgressive proximity and new French feminism. Moreover, the book fits well into the new emphasis in the Chaucer curriculum on globalism and multiculturalism.

Index

A

Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, 139

Abu Said, 65–66

Abu’l Qasim al-Iraqi, 144

adab, 160, 164

Adam, 140, 207, 252–53

Adam, William, 63, 64

Aden, 58

Adenet le Rois, 61

aeneas, 6, 154, 236–39

Aeneid, 37, 266

aesthetics, 161, 170

Africa, 28, 58–59, 73n. 31, 78, 84, 195, 197, 198, 203, 226, 296; North, 62, 66, 226

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, 9, 28

al-Khwarizmi, 157

al-Razi, 139–41, 144–45

Al-Zarqali, 91

alchemical: knowledge, 37–38; language, 167; literature, 136–37, 142, 144, 146; Platonic dialogue, 142–43; tradition, 10, 135–51

alchemists, 139–40; Latin, 146

alchemy, 41–42, 135–51; Arabic treatises on, 140–41, 147n. 5, 149n. 31; Christianity and, 142–44; code of secrecy of, 136, 44; idiom of, 143–44; Latin treatises on, 139, 41, 149n. 31; use of allegory in, 136–37, 139–41, 146

Alexander the Great, 26, 195

Alexandria, 62, 66, 69n. 5, 70n. 12, 86, 228

Alhambra, the, 161

alienation, 34, 42, 49

Allah, 66, 143

Amazons, the, 108

America, 296

Americaness, 296

Americans, 296

Anderson, Benedict, 112, 117, 129n. 49, 130n. 57, 131n. 79, 288, 301n. 70

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