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Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
The Ohio State University Press, 2022 Cloth: 978-0-8142-1498-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8142-8198-7 Library of Congress Classification PQ178.S26 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 841.03309
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 Chrétien 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 “courtliness”—namely, their literary sophistication—powerfully overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness. See other books on: Deconstruction | French literature | French poetry | Queer theory | Romances See other titles from The Ohio State University Press |
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Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
The Ohio State University Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-8142-1498-5
eISBN: 978-0-8142-8198-7
Cloth: 978-0-8142-1498-5
eISBN: 978-0-8142-8198-7
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 Chrétien 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 “courtliness”—namely, their literary sophistication—powerfully overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
