Abstract

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.

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