Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance
Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance

Author: Roberta L. Krueger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-02-17

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780521619363

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This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which focused on knights, it starts from the perspective of the woman reader/listener. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, it suggests that romances taught gender roles, often inviting readers to criticise and resist them.

Shaping Romance
Shaping Romance

Author: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1512801054

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Examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts—complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short—to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in its formative period.

The Evolution of Arthurian Romance
The Evolution of Arthurian Romance

Author: Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-05-28

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780521411530

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This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing Chrétien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the whole of Arthurian literature, but as the starting point for the history of the genre, which can subsequently be traced over a period of two centuries in the French-speaking world. Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.

Debate of the Romance of the Rose
Debate of the Romance of the Rose

Author: David F. Hult

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0226670139

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In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365a 1430?) wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular 'Romance of the Rose' for its unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. Here, Hult collects debate documents, letters and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from 'City of Ladiesa' her major defense of women.