An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France (eBook)

From Le Roman de la Rose to La Belle Dame sans Mercy

Joan E. McRae (Autor)

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2024
264 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-7316-3 (ISBN)

Infos

How medieval poems sparked discussions on womensagency, love, marriage, and honor that prefigured modern feminismThisvolume immerses readers in a debate tradition that flourished in France during thelate Middle Ages, focusing on two works that were both popular andcontroversial in their time: Le Roman de la Rose by thirteenth-centurypoets Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun and La Belle Dame sans Mercy by fifteenth-century royal secretary andpoet Alain Chartier. This is the first comparative volume on these importantworks and the discussions they sparked. Engaging with questions of womens agency, love,marriage, and honor, these two poems prompted responses that circulated via treatises,letters, and sermons among officials, clerics, and poets. Joan McRae provides commentaryon the two texts, a timeline and summary of the resulting debates, and biographicalsketches of the leading intellectuals who matched wits over different ways ofreading the texts, including pioneering writer Christine de Pizan. McRae showsthat these works and the debates, read together, consider a range of socialissues that raise questions of gender, the place of power and hierarchy in societalrelationships, and the responsibility of writers for the effect of their workson readers.An Introduction toLiterary Debate in Late Medieval France is a helpful overview of these weighty argumentsfor both students and scholars. McRae provides a compact, comprehensive, andup-to-date study, spotlighting influential literary expressions that evolvedinto the querelle des femmes, the woman question, which in turn paved theway for modern feminism.A volume in the series New Perspectives on MedievalLiterature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.2.2024
• Zusatzinfo: appendixes, notes, bibliography, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 13th century literature • 15th century literary debates • 15th Century literature • Achilles Caulier • Alain Chartier • Allegory • Baudet Herenc • Christine de Pizan • Cour amoureuse • Dream Vision • Feminism • Fifteenth Century Literature • French Literature • french medieval literature • French middle ages • Garden of Pleasure • Gender • Gontier Col • Guillaume de Lorris • Jean de Meun • Jean de Montreuil • Jean Gerson • Jean the Fearless • La Belle Dame sans Mercy • Le Roman de la Rose • Literary Debates • Louis d'Orleans • love rhetoric • Medieval Literature • misogyny • Philippe of Burgundy • Pierre Col • Pierre d'Ailly • proto-feminine • Querelle des femmes • thirteenth century poets • Treat of Troyes
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-7316-2 / 0813073162
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-7316-3 / 9780813073163