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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R1,477
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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Paperback, Revised): Simon Gaunt

Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Paperback, Revised)

Simon Gaunt

Series: Cambridge Studies in French

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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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in French
Release date: November 2005
First published: 1995
Authors: Simon Gaunt
Dimensions: 217 x 141 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 384
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02260-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN: 0-521-02260-6
Barcode: 9780521022606

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