Gender And Genre In Medieval French Literature
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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Author | : Simon Gaunt |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1995-05-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521464949 |
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Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.
Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song
Author | : Rachel May Golden,Katherine Kong |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813057927 |
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This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, including the Occitanian region, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered identities. The contributors to this volume argue that because medieval texts were often read or sung aloud, voice is central for understanding the performance, transmission, and reception of work from the period across a wide variety of genres. These essays offer close readings of narrative and lyric poetry, chivalric romance, sermons, letters, political writing, motets, troubadour and trouvère lyric, crusade songs, love songs, and debate songs. Through literary, musical, and historiographical analyses, contributors highlight the voicing of gendered perspectives, expressions of sexuality, and power dynamics. The volume includes feminist readings, investigations of masculinity, queer theory, and intersectional approaches. The contributors interpret literary or musical works by Chrétien de Troyes, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Hue de la Ferté, the Chastelain de Couci, Jacques de Vitry, Christine de Pizan, Anne de Graville, Alain Chartier, and Giovanni Boccaccio, among others. Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song offers a valuable interdisciplinary approach and contributes to the history of women’s voices in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. It illuminates the critical role of voice in negotiating culture, celebrating and innovating traditions, advancing personal and political projects, and defining the literary and musical developments that shaped medieval France. Contributors: Lisa Colton | Emily J Hutchinson | Daisy Delogu | Tamara Bentley Caudill | Katherine Kong | Meghan Quinlan | Lydia M Walker | Rachel May Golden | Anna Kathryn Grau | Anne Adele Levitsky
Christian Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Author | : Lynn Tarte Ramey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136700415 |
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This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500.
Gender Transgressions
Author | : Karen J. Taylor |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317944799 |
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This collection, comprising nine critical essays from prominent and emerging medievalists, seeks to explore the different ways in which French authors of the Middle Ages transgress normative social and cultural gender codes in their literary works Offering fresh approaches to texts that have long been subjected to polarized critical analyses, the essays challenge traditional interpretations of gender roles in Old French literature, especially in the thematic areas of sexual deviation and transgression. This corpus emerges as possessing multiple shades and subtleties of meaning, long buried or ignored by conventional approaches to these texts. This is a conclusion much more in accord with what we know about the ability of the medieval imagination to grasp multiple meaning from a single word or act. The collection provides many examples of this multi-layering of transgressive meaning. Through the detailed studies of gender transgressions such as incest, cross-dressing, rape and homoeroticism, the reader will come to understand the many facets of the literary expression of sexuality in selected Old French texts, products of a society that was at least as diverse and complex as our own. These studies will be of particular value to those interested in Old French and gender studies by dint of accessible analyses of texts both familiar and arcane. The provocative subject matter makes the studies original and eminently readable.
Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature
Author | : Elaine Treharne |
Publsiher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Anglo-Saxon literature |
ISBN | : 0859917606 |
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Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres. The essays in this annual English Association volume provide useful examples of how the conventions behind and the expectations evoked by literary modes and genres help to shape what purports to be an entirely essential and/or socially constructed aspect of identity of the 'he', 'she', or 'I' of the literary text. Ranging across materials from Old English Biblical poetry and hagiography to the late Middle English romances and fabliaux, the essays are united by a commitment to a variety of traditional scholarly methodologies. But each examines afresh an important aspect of what it means to be man or women, husband, son, mother, daughter, wife, devotee or love in the context of particular kinds of medieval literary texts. Contributors ANNE MARIE D'ARCY, HUGH MAGENNIS, DAVID SALTER, MARY SWAN, ELAINE TREHARNE, GREG WALKER.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Author | : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2008-04-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827871 |
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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.
Gender Writing and Performance
Author | : Helen J. Swift |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199232239 |
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Helen Swift examines late-medieval and early-modern French imaginative literature written by men in defence of women of great popularity in its own time - including catalogues of virtuous women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems.
Ravishing Maidens
Author | : Kathryn Gravdal |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812200331 |
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In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: sometimes through humor and aestheticization, sometimes through the use of social and political themes, but especially through the romanticism of rape scenes.