Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative [electronic resource] : Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation /
Findley, B.author.
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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Cover; Title; Copyright; 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 HerSisters 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?                                        ; Notes            ; Bibliography                   ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
European literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Poetry.
Literature-History and criticism.
Europe-History-476-1492.
European Literature.
Medieval Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary History.
History of Medieval Europe.