Reassessing the Heroine in Medieval French Literature
2002; Modern Language Association; Volume: 67; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3201902
ISSN2325-7970
AutoresJames E. Blackburn, Kathy M. Krause,
Tópico(s)French Literature and Poetry
ResumoPart I Saintly women- hagiography, miracle, and epic: Cume lur cumpaine et lur veisine- women's roles in Anglo-Norman hagiography, Duncan Robertson virgin, saint, and sinners- women in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame, Kathy M. Krause women's voices raised in prayer- on the Epic Credo in Adenet le Roi's Berte as grans pies, David Wrisley. Part II Amorous women- romance and lyric: Melusine's double binds- foundation, transgression, and the genealogical romance, Ana Pairet on Fenice's vain attempts to revise a romantic archetype and Chr tien's fabled hostility to the Tristan legend, Joan Grimbert the lyric lady in narrative, William D. Paden. Part III Dissenting women- lyric and farce: Fine Words on Closed Ears- impertinent women, discordant voices, discourteous words, Nadine Bordessoule poetic justice- the revenge of La Guignarde in the Livre des Cent Ballades, Sally Tartline Carden woman's cry- broken language, marital disputes, and the poetics of medieval farce, Christopher Lucken.
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