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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Roman de Silence"”.
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Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night
… on male characters in Heldris of Cornwall’s Le Roman de Silence and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In the 13th century French Romance that centers on the debate between nature and nurture, Silence is a female raised as a male to circumvent patrilineal inheritance laws who becomes a …
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“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence
… to clarify the purpose of ambiguity and indecision within Heldris of Cornwall's <em>Roman de Silence</em>. Using the framework laid out by Judith Butler, it seeks to understand the way that the protagonist's performance of gender and class reflects the social context in which she lives. </p>
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
In “Sonic Interventions: Silence, Sound, and Melody in Medieval Literature,” I examine five early literary texts, spanning from the late-fifth to early-fifteenth-century: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
This thesis argues that the modern concept of ‘gender’ as a fact of social organisation and an aspect of individual identity is the metaphorisation of a grammatical concept, and that this metaphor has a history. A major inflection point in this history is the period between 1100 and 1300, when the …