Format:
viii, 229 Seiten
ISBN:
9780814214985
,
0814214983
Series Statement:
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
Content:
"Focuses on high medieval verse romance, associated with Chrétien de Troyes, and late medieval dits, associated with the work of Guillaume de Machaut. Courtly and Queer considers these genres both alongside each other and in relation to deconstruction and queer theory"--
Content:
"In Courtly and Queer, Charlie Samuelson casts queerness in medieval French texts about courtly love in a new light by bringing together for the first time two exemplary genres: high medieval verse romance, associated with the towering figure of Chrétien de Troyes, and late medieval dits, primarily associated with Guillaume de Machaut. In close readings informed by deconstruction and queer theory, Samuelson argues that the genres' juxtaposition opens up radical new perspectives on the deviant poetics and gender and sexual politics of both. Contrary to a critical tradition that locates the queer Middle Ages at the margins of these courtly genres, Courtly and Queer emphasizes an unflagging queerness that is inseparable from poetic indeterminacy and that inhabits the core of a literary tradition usually assumed to be conservative and patriarchal. Ultimately, Courtly and Queer contends that one facet of texts commonly referred to as their "courtliness"-namely, their literary sophistication-powerfully overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814281987
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814281982
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Mittelfranzösisch
;
Literatur
;
Versroman
;
Dit
;
Höfische Minne
;
Chrétien de Troyes 1150-1190
;
Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377
;
Homosexualität
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschichte
