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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature / Simon Gaunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaunt, Simon
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in French ; no. 53.
- Cambridge Studies in French ; no. 53
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--To 1500--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- French literature.
- Proven{cedil}cal literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Proven{cedil}cal literature.
- Feminism and literature--France--History.
- Feminism and literature.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Literary form--History--To 1500.
- Literary form.
- History.
- Sex (Psychology) in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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' Chevalier de la charrete, and lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn. 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 he shows that gender is a crucial element in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511519505
- 0511519508
- 9780521464949
- 0521464943
- OCLC:
- 776963427
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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