Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 372 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-0-511-51950-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in French 53
Content:
This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography, and the fabliaux. Simon Gaunt offers new readings of canonical Old French and medieval Occitan texts such as the Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la charrette, and lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn, and in addition he considers many less well-known works and less familiar genres such as hagiography and the fabliaux. Drawing on contemporary feminist theory, he examines how masculinity, as well as femininity, is constructed in medieval French and Occitan texts, and shows that gender is a crucial element in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
,
1. Monologic masculinity: the chanson de geste -- 2. The knight meets his match: romance -- 3. Troubadours, ladies and language: the canso -- 4. Saints, sex and community: hagiography -- 5. Genitals, gender and mobility: the fabliaux
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-46494-9
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-02260-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Altfranzösisch
;
Literatur
;
Frauenbild
;
Altfranzösisch
;
Literatur
;
Männerbild
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511519505
URL:
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