Medievalists.net » Thomas Middleton http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Female Body as Geosomatic Apotrope in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Middleton http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/19/female-body-as-geosomatic-apotrope-in-chaucer-shakespeare-and-middleton/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/19/female-body-as-geosomatic-apotrope-in-chaucer-shakespeare-and-middleton/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:03:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33962 As a geographic trope transposed to literary discourse, discovery remains closely linked to the desire for possession. Postcolonial criticism has sought to deconstruct the feminized and sexualized discourses of geographic places and spaces as objects of desire, invasion, and annexation.

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