TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swift,Helen J.
TI  - Gender, writing, and performance: men defending women in late medieval France, 1440-1538 
T2  - Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
SN  - 9780191552519
AV  - PQ155.W6 S95 2008eb
U1  - 840.9352209024 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
KW  - French literature
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Male authors
KW  - Littérature française
KW  - Jusqu'à 1500
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Femmes dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index; Haunting text and paratext : performing intertextuality in Querelle debates -- Performing conflict : the drama of debate -- Representing women in the Querelle des femmes
N2  - This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. Whereas male-authored defences composed between 1440 and 1538 have previously been dismissed as "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 Jean Bouchet-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. The book seeks to understand the contemporary popularity of the case for women (la querelle des femmes) as literary subject matter. It investigates the publication history across this period, from manuscript to print, of Le Franc's Le Champion des dames. Swift further aims to show how these texts hold interest for modern audiences. A nexus of theoretical concerns centred on performance - Judith Butler's gender performativity, Derrida's re-working of Austin's linguistic performativity through spectrality, and dramatic performance - is enlisted to articulate the interpretative engagement expected by querelle writers of their audience. --From publisher's description
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