Courtly and Queer
Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2022
202 pages
978-0-8142-8198-7 (ISBN)
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Description
In Courtly and Queer, Charlie Samuelson casts queerness in medieval French texts about courtly love in a new light by bringing together for the first time two exemplary genres: high medieval verse romance, associated with the towering figure of Chretien de Troyes, and late medieval dits, primarily associated with Guillaume de Machaut. In close readings informed by deconstruction and queer theory, Samuelson argues that the genres' juxtaposition opens up radical new perspectives on the deviant poetics and gender and sexual politics of both. Contrary to a critical tradition that locates the queer Middle Ages at the margins of these courtly genres, Courtly and Queer emphasizes an unflagging queerness that is inseparable from poetic indeterminacy and that inhabits the core of a literary tradition usually assumed to be conservative and patriarchal. Ultimately, Courtly and Queer contends that one facet of texts commonly referred to as their "e,courtliness"e,-namely, their literary sophistication-powerfully overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness.
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Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Verse Romances and Dits, Poetic and Sexual Indeterminacy
- Chapter 1 Reflexive, Ambivalent, Queer Subjects
- Chapter 2 Medieval Metalepsis: Queering Narrative Poetics
- Chapter 3 On Sameness, Difference, and Textualizing Desire: Queering Lyric Insertion
- Chapter 4 Queer Irony in Chrétien de Troyes and Guillaume de Machaut
- Coda Slashes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Page
