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Stratégies de romancières : de "Clélie" à "La princesse de Clèves", 1654-1678
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ISBN: 2745300156 9782745300157 Year: 1999 Volume: 20 Publisher: Paris: Champion,

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The coupling convention : sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction
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ISBN: 0195079728 0195085094 1280527021 0195359119 0197723578 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

Gender and genre in medieval French literature.
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ISBN: 0521464943 0521022606 0511519508 9780521022606 9780511519505 9780521464949 Year: 1995 Volume: 53 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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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.

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