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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This collection, comprising nine critical essays from prominent and
emerging medievalists, seeks to explore the different ways in which
French authors of the Middle Ages transgress normative social and
cultural gender codes in their literary works
Offering fresh approaches to texts that have long been subjected to
polarized critical analyses, the essays challenge traditional
interpretations of gender roles in Old French literature,
especially in the thematic areas of sexual deviation and
transgression. This corpus emerges as possessing multiple shades
and subtleties of meaning, long buried or ignored by conventional
approaches to these texts. This is a conclusion much more in accord
with what we know about the ability of the medieval imagination to
grasp multiple meaning from a single word or act.
The collection provides many examples of this multi-layering of
transgressive meaning. Through the detailed studies of gender
transgressions such as incest, cross-dressing, rape and
homoeroticism, the reader will come to understand the many facets
of the literary expression of sexuality in selected Old French
texts, products of a society that was at least as diverse and
complex as our own.
These studies will be of particular value to those interested in
Old French and gender studies by dint of accessible analyses of
texts both familiar and arcane. The provocative subject matter
makes the studies original and eminently readable.
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