Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Crea

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Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.

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Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.

Author Biography

Brooke Heidenreich Findley is Assistant Professor of French and Women's Studies at Penn State Altoona, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Authors, Writers, Singers, and Women: Gendering Literary Creation in Medieval French Culture PART I: FROM MINSTREL HEROINE TO POET HEROINE: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY AND BEYOND 1. Singing from a Woman's Body: Minstrel Heroines as Performers and Texts 2. The Parrot and the Swan: Performance and Composition in Sone de Nansay PART II: DANGEROUS MUSES: TOUTE BELLE AND HER SISTERS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY DIT 3. Competing Perspectives: Guillaume de Machaut's Voir Dit 4. A Contemporary Reaction to the Voir Dit: Deadly Words and Captive Imaginations in Jean Froissart's Prison Amoureuse PART III: WOMEN AT THE ORIGINS: FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROSE ROMANCE 5. Verbal Prowess: Women's Artistry and Men's Chivalry in Perceforest 6. Women Writers and the Monstrous Author in Ysaÿe le Triste Conclusion: What About Christine?

Review

"Findley's study not only does exactly what she claims it will, but, via its combination of close readings and feminist theory, it also produces important new insights into medieval narrative, its depictions of gender, and its conception of literary creation In short, this is a volume that deserves to be widely read by medieval literary scholars, and feminist scholars of French literature more broadly as it offers much not only to scholars of the medieval French texts it studies, but also to those concerned with the intersection of women and medieval literary production more broadly. Indeed it can likely be read with much profit by scholars concerned with issues of female literary creation in other periods, for it offers innovative, insightful analysis that has application and implications well beyond the corpus of texts it studies." - The Medieval Review

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Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.

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"Findley's study not only does exactly what she claims it will, but, via its combination of close readings and feminist theory, it also produces important new insights into medieval narrative, its depictions of gender, and its conception of literary creation In short, this is a volume that deserves to be widely read by medieval literary scholars, and feminist scholars of French literature more broadly as it offers much not only to scholars of the medieval French texts it studies, but also to those concerned with the intersection of women and medieval literary production more broadly. Indeed it can likely be read with much profit by scholars concerned with issues of female literary creation in other periods, for it offers innovative, insightful analysis that has application and implications well beyond the corpus of texts it studies." - The Medieval Review

Details ISBN1349294578 Series The New Middle Ages Language English ISBN-10 1349294578 ISBN-13 9781349294572 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title POET HEROINES IN MEDIEVAL FREN Media Book Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-11-29 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 267 Edition 1st Author B. Findley UK Release Date 2012-11-29 AU Release Date 2012-11-29 NZ Release Date 2012-11-29 Illustrations XIV, 267 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 2012 Alternative 9780230112582 DEWEY 840.99287090 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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