UID:
almahu_9947413050302882
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781846156267 (ebook)
Inhalt:
This study brings the songs of the 'trouvères' to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sexual difference and unconscious desire. In 'trouvère' song desire functions as a means of generic and 'genderic' differentiation. The 'trouvères' distinguished between sexual need or lust and desire, the latter usually confined to the masculine voice in high style. Less exalted persons, in whose company women were already implicitly included, appear as incapable of desire in the 'fin'amors' register. Critics have treated the issue of desire as represented in the courtly 'chanson' but, because criticism has followed the 'trouvères' distinction between desire and need, discussion of desire has been limited to songs in the courtly register rather than across the system of genres. Desire in Lacan's sense, that is unconscious desire, is present in all genres and voices and this book unearths the unspoken desires of 'trouvère' song by an attention to the characteristic means by which subjects subvert their demands in different genres. HELEN DELL is a research fellow in English Literary Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: A Kaleidoscope of différance -- 1. The Song System I: An Unstable Hierachy: the Unmarked Masculine -- 2. The Song System II: The Ignoble Words of Eve: Femininity in the System -- 3. Desire by Gender and Genre I: Low Lusts and High Desires, pastourelle and chanson -- 4. Desire by Gender and Genre II: Ignoble Desires of the Triumphalist chanson d'ami -- 5. Chronotypes of Desire I: Case-study of a malmariée: Feminine Space/ Times -- 6. Chronotypes of Desire II: The Contained and Containing Heart: Masculine Space/Times -- 7. Desiring Differently: The chanson in the Feminine Voice -- 8. Afterthoughts: '"[T]hat's not it" and "that's still not it"'.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781843841647
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846156267/type/BOOK
