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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Cambridge Studies in French) (Hardback)(English / French)
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Short Description for Gender and Genre in Medieval French LiteratureWide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 11 May 1995
- Format: Hardback 384 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
- ISBN 13: 9780521464949 ISBN 10: 0521464943
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Full description for Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
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, Chretien 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.
