Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 241 pages)
ISBN:
9781846156267
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1846156262
Serie:
Gallica v. 10
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.:
ISBN 9781843841647
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1843841649
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dell, Helen Desire by gender and genre in trouvère song Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer, 2008 ISBN 9781843841647
Sprache:
Englisch
