Erika E Hess

Literary Hybrids

Indeterminacy in Medieval & Modern French Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415967068
• ISBN-10: 0415967066
• Artikelnr.: 22449271

Autorenporträt

Erika E. Hess received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon in 2000. She currently teaches French at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Narrative Apertures and Physical
Hybridism-The Questioning of Authoritative Meaning The Origins of the
Medieval Marvelous Philosophical Negation and the Monstrous The Demotion of
the Monster and Its Contemporary Resurgence Methodology and Theoretical
Concerns Four Hybrid Types Chapter 2. Passing for True: Gender As
Performance in Le Roman De Silence and L'enfant De Sable The Construction
of Gender The Law of the Father Inscription: Naming and Clothing
Adolescence: The Challenge to a Dual Gender Identity Passing Staging
Representation Chapter 3. Parallel Ambiguities: Narrative and Generic The
Reader's Double Perspective Linguistic and Narrative Ambiguities in the
Roman de Silence Linguistic and Narrative Ambiguities in L'Enfant de sable
Chapter 4. The Ultimate Challenge to the Primacy of the Sexed Body The
Unveiling The Cultural Creation of Gender The Possibility of a Body
Constructed by Performance The Cultural Construction of Sex Feminism and
the (Anti-)Essentialism Debates Multiple Readers/Multiple Readings
Sexual-Generic Ambiguity and Narrative Openendedness Chapter 5. Conclusion:
The Hybrid As Frame The Hybrid Figure: A Challenge to the Natural Order The
Literary Hybrid As Cultural Metaphor Notes Bibliography