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Chaucers Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first booklength treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucers Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentiethcentury theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice.
Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern, Drawing on theorists ranging from St, Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historicaland sexualidentities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

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