E. Jane Burns

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Bodytalk

When Women Speak in Old French Literature

Beschreibung

In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed to convey.

Autor

E. Jane Burns is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of "This Prick Which Is Not One" in Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, edited by Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), and of Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle.

Produktdetails

• New Cultural Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780812214055
• ISBN-10: 0812214056
• Artikelnr.: 44542708