TY - BOOK ID - 2558106 TI - Gender and genre in medieval French literature PY - 1995 VL - 53 SN - 0521464943 0521022606 0511519508 9780521022606 9780511519505 9780521464949 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Genres [Letterkundige ] KW - Genres [Literaire ] KW - Genres littéraires KW - Hommes et femmes [Relations entre ] dans la littérature KW - Letterkundige genres KW - Literaire genres KW - Literary form KW - Man-vrouw relaties in de literatuur KW - Man-woman relationships in literature KW - Medieval rhetoric KW - Middeleeuwse retorica KW - Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature KW - Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] KW - Rhetoric [Medieval ] KW - Rhétorique médiévale KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Sekse (Psychologie) in de literatuur KW - Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur KW - Sex (Psychology) in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Sexe (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Feminism and literature KW - French literature KW - Man-woman relationships in literature. KW - Provençal literature KW - Rhetoric, Medieval. KW - Sex (Psychology) in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - History. KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - History KW - Rhetoric, Medieval KW - Literature KW - History and criticism&delete& KW - Theory, etc KW - Women authors KW - To 1500 KW - Provençal literature KW - France KW - French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism - Theory, etc. KW - Provenðcal literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. KW - Feminism and literature - France - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literary form. KW - Literature and feminism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2558106 AB - This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography, and the fabliaux. Simon Gaunt offers new readings of canonical Old French and medieval Occitan texts such as the Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la charrette, and lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn, and in addition he considers many less well-known works and less familiar genres such as hagiography and the fabliaux. Drawing on contemporary feminist theory, he examines how masculinity, as well as femininity, is constructed in medieval French and Occitan texts, and shows that gender is a crucial element in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres. ER -