Gender Transgressions: Crossing the Normative Barrier in Old French Literature

ISBN-13: 9780815328698 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 204 str.

Karen J. Taylor; Bonnie Wheeler

Opis

Comprises nine critical essays from prominent and emerging medievalists, exploring the different ways in which French authors of the Middle Ages transgress normative social and cultural gender codes in their literary works. Essays challenge traditional interpretations of gender roles in Old French l

Recenzje

"An important contribution to medieval studies and gender studies." -- Choice

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Karen J. Taylor