1st Edition
Gender Transgressions Crossing the Normative Barrier in Old French Literature
Edited By Karen J. Taylor
Copyright 1998
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Rape, Redemption, and the Grateful Dead: Richars li biaus, Catherine M. Jones; Chapter 2 When a Rose Is not a Rose, Ellen L. Friedrich; Chapter 3 “Plus acesmez qu’une popine”, Keith Busby; Chapter 4 The Grammar of the Sexes in Medieval French Romance, Michelle Szkilnik; Chapter 5 A Heroine’s Sexual Itinerary, Robert L. A. Clark; Chapter 6 “Tu cuides que nos seions taus/Come autres femes comunaus”:, Glenda Warren Carl; Chapter 7 Sexual Identity in Floire et Blancheflor and Ami et Amile, Phillip McCaffrey; Chapter 8 The Structuring of Feminine Empowerment, Nora Cottille-Foley; Chapter 9 Desexualizing the Stereotypes:, Karen J. Taylor;
Biography
Karen J. Taylor
"An important contribution to medieval studies and gender studies." -- Choice
