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Author:

Findley, Brooke Heidenreich, 1972-

Title:

Poet heroines in medieval French narrative : gender and fictions of literary creation / Brooke Heidenreich Findley.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiv, 267 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
Women poets in literature.
French literature--To 1500--Authorship.
Women and literature--France--History--To 1500.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: authors, writers, singers, and women: gendering literary creation in medieval French culture -- From minstrel heroine to poet heroine: the thirteenth century and beyond. Singing from a woman's body: minstrel heroines as performers and texts; The parrot and the swan: performance and composition in Sone de Nansay -- Dangerous muses: Toute Belle and her sisters in the fourteenth century dit ; Competing perspectives: Guillaume de Machaut's Voir dit; A contemporary reaction to the Voir dit: deadly words and captive imaginations in Jean Froissart's Prison amoureuse -- Women at the origins: fifteenth century prose romance. Verbal prowess: women's artistry and men's chivalry in Perceforest; Women writers and the monstrous author in Ysaÿe le Triste -- Conclusion: what about Christine?.

Series:

The new Middle Ages

ISBN:

0230112587 (alk. paper)
9780230112582 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795759237

LCCN:

2012024712

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)