Reassessing the heroine in medieval French literature
By: edited by Kathy M. Krause.
Contributors: Krause, Kathy M., 1962-
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Heroines in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reassessing the heroine: discourse and ideology -- Kathy M. Krause; title: "Cume lur cumpaine et lur veisine": women's roles in Anglo-Norman hagiography -- Duncan Robertson; title: Virgin, saint, and sinners: women in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame -- Kathy M. Krause; title: Women's voices raised in prayer: on the "epic credo" in Adenet le Roi's Berte as grans piés -- David J. Wrisley; title: Melusine's double binds: foundation, transgression, and the genealogical romance -- Ana Pairet; title: On Fenice's vain attempts to revise a romantic archetype and Chrétien's fabled hostility to the Tristan legend -- Joan Tasker Grimbert -- The; title: lyric lady in narrative -- William D. Paden; title: "Fine words on closed ears": impertinent women, discordant voices, discourteous words -- Nadine Bordessoule; title: Poetic justice: the revenge of La Guignarde in the Livre des cent ballades -- Sally Tartline Carden; title: Woman's cry: broken language, marital disputes, and the poetics of medieval farce-- Christopher Lucken.