Erika E HessLiterary Hybrids
Indeterminacy in Medieval & Modern French Narrative
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
