Jean Renart, female characters, medieval literature, lyricism, sensuality, Old French verse romance, Guillaume de Dole, Roman de la Rose, feminine voices, narrative and lyric
Explore the significance of female characters in Jean Renart's works, including The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole, and their impact on medieval literature.
[...] - Krueger, Roberta L., Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in French, 43) xvi + 338 p. [IA]Reprint: - Lachet, Claude, 'Presence of Liénor in the Roman de la Rose of Jean Renart', 'And that's the end why we are together': homage to Jean Dufournet, professor at the Sorbonne: medieval literature, history and language, ed. Jean-Claude Aubailly et al., Paris, Champion (New Library of the Middle Ages, 25) p. 813-825. [...]
[...] The songs associated with female voices are more numerous than in songbooks. In this way, Jean Renart establishes a link between the female voice and the posterity of the songs. Subject 2 The female figures of Jean Renart's work: a significant and unusual emphasis on feminine sensuality in French literature. Problématique Jean Renart gradually orients his writing towards realism. Should we see in the emphasis on the sensuality of his female characters, paradoxical with the clerical influence of the time, a concern for updating by the author? [...]
[...] It is rather unusual at the time of Jean Renart to emphasize the sensuality of the woman in French literature. In L'Escouffle, For example, the heroine is a young girl, a princess-child rather seductive. Other seductive women have already appeared in French literature but more discreetly, rather relegated to the background. This desire of Jean Renart is therefore not insignificant and could be subject to various interpretations. References - Reference site: arlima - Thesis on the 'idyllic' novels: Marion Vuagnoux-Uhlig, The Couple in Bloom. [...]
[...] - Talarico, Kathryn Marie, 'Dressing for success: how the heroine's clothing (un)makes the man in Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose', Medieval Clothing and Textiles p. 115-131. - Accarie, Maurice, 'Courtoisie and fine amors in the Guillaume de Dole', Razo p. 5-16. - Accarie, Maurice, 'The function of the songs in the Guillaume de Dole', Mélanges Jean Larmat. Regards sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance (histoire, langue et littérature). Centre d'études médiévales de Nice, ed. Maurice Accarie, Paris, Belles Lettres (Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Nice, 39) p. 13-29. [...]
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