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Gender Writing And Performance : Men Defending Women In Latemedieval France 1440 - 1538
Hardback Edition: 1/2008
This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France.
It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a later generation of women writers and male, Neo-Platonist writers who have recently all received due critical attention. Whereas male-authored defences composed between 1440 and 1538 have previously been dismissedas 'insincere' or 'mere intellectual games', Swift formulates reading strategies to overcome such critical stumbling blocks and engage with the particular rhetorical and historical contexts of these works.
Edited and as yet unedited texts by Martin Le Franc, Jacques Milet, Pierre Michault, and JeanBouchet - catalogues of women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems - are brought together and analysed in detail for the first time in order to explore, for example, how such works address the misogynistic spectre of Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose.
Pages : 288
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Publication date : 2008-02-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL