Read Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies)

Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies)

E. Jane Burns

4.9/5 (33564 ratings)

Description:Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of women--from the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce--are the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy.In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed to convey. She investigates key moments in which the words of these medieval women dissent from and significantly restructure the conceptions of female sexuality, wifely obedience, courtly love, and adultery that are so often used to define and delimit femininity in the French Middle Ages. Burns provides the feminist reader of medieval literature with a strategy for reinterpreting the female body in its stereotyped, fetishized, and fantasized for. Arguing that the gendered body mattters in our reading of female protagonists, she shows how women characters can rewrite, through their attributed speech, the narratives that define and contain them.Bodytalk is an incisive, polemical, sophisticated, and often witty book about the gender issues that are raised by the very presence of female characters in male-authored texts. It brings recent feminist theory to bear upon the discussion of medieval texts, and contributes significantly to current feminist criticism by offering historically specific accounts of some of the founding moments of western conceptions of love, desire, and sexuality.A volume in the New Cultural Studies series.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies). To get started finding Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0812214056

Description: Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of women--from the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce--are the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy.In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed to convey. She investigates key moments in which the words of these medieval women dissent from and significantly restructure the conceptions of female sexuality, wifely obedience, courtly love, and adultery that are so often used to define and delimit femininity in the French Middle Ages. Burns provides the feminist reader of medieval literature with a strategy for reinterpreting the female body in its stereotyped, fetishized, and fantasized for. Arguing that the gendered body mattters in our reading of female protagonists, she shows how women characters can rewrite, through their attributed speech, the narratives that define and contain them.Bodytalk is an incisive, polemical, sophisticated, and often witty book about the gender issues that are raised by the very presence of female characters in male-authored texts. It brings recent feminist theory to bear upon the discussion of medieval texts, and contributes significantly to current feminist criticism by offering historically specific accounts of some of the founding moments of western conceptions of love, desire, and sexuality.A volume in the New Cultural Studies series.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies). To get started finding Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies)

Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies)

More Books

Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series)

Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series)

Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (The New Middle Ages)

Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (The New Middle Ages)

Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns (Gallica, 39)

Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns (Gallica, 39)

Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature (The Middle Ages Series)

Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature (The Middle Ages Series)

From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe

From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe

Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series) by E. Jane Burns (2005-09-07)

Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series) by E. Jane Burns (2005-09-07)

Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies) by E. Jane Burns (1993-03-01)

Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies) by E. Jane Burns (1993-03-01)

Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle

Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle