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Bodytalk - When Women Speak in Old French Literature (Paperback)
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Bodytalk - When Women Speak in Old French Literature (Paperback)
Series: New Cultural Studies
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Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary
representations of women-from the excessively beautiful lady of
courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce-are
the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy. In
Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in
medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against
the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is
designed to convey. She investigates key moments in which the words
of these medieval "women" dissent from and significantly
restructure the conceptions of female sexuality, wifely obedience,
courtly love, and adultery that are so often used to define and
delimit femininity in the French Middle Ages. Burns provides the
feminist reader of medieval literature with a strategy for
reinterpreting the female body in its stereotyped, fetishized, and
fantasized for. Arguing that the gendered body mattters in our
reading of female protagonists, she shows how women characters can
rewrite, through their attributed speech, the narratives that
define and contain them. Bodytalk is an incisive, polemical,
sophisticated, and often witty book about the gender issues that
are raised by the very presence of female characters in
male-authored texts. It brings recent feminist theory to bear upon
the discussion of medieval texts, and contributes significantly to
current feminist criticism by offering historically specific
accounts of some of the founding moments of western conceptions of
love, desire, and sexuality. A volume in the New Cultural Studies
series.
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