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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 August 2009
      11 May 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511519505
      9780521464949
      9780521022606
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519505
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.566kg, 384 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.499kg, 384 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in French (53)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in French (53)
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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, Chrétien 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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    ‘… a fine study of five genres and one gender: masculinity … Gaunt offers a wealth of penetrating and balanced analyses, well-informed digests of earlier scholarship, unobtrusive plot outlines, and copious quotations with English translations.’

    Source: The French Review

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