Arthurian Women
Subtitle: A Casebook (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780815306238
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000; Folklore; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Women's studies; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval Literature - History And Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; British Isles; Sex role in literature; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; History and criticism; Arthurian romances; Literature, Medieval; Women In Literature
First sentence: If Old French courtly romances were addressed to audiences of men and women, and if a text's ideological function depends upon the relationship it establishes with its readers, how does the sens of a romance differ when the implied reader is a woman?
Description: lxxvii, 344 p. ; 23 cm