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Courtly and Queer

By Charlie Samuelson

Courtly and Queer

By Charlie Samuelson

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In Courtly and Queer, Charlie Samuelson casts queerness in medieval French texts about courtly love in a new light by bringing together for the first time two exemplary genres: high medieval verse romance, associated with the towering figure of Chrétien de Troyes, and late medieval dits, primarily associated with Guillaume de Machaut. In close readings informed by deconstruction and queer theory, Samuelson argues that the genres' juxtaposition opens up radical new perspectives on the deviant poetics and gender and sexual politics of both. Contrary to a critical tradition that locates the queer Middle Ages at the margins of these courtly genres, Courtly and Queer emphasizes an unflagging queerness that is inseparable from poetic indeterminacy and that inhabits the core of a literary tradition usually assumed to be conservative and patriarchal. Ultimately, Courtly and Queer contends that one facet of texts commonly referred to as their "courtliness"-namely, their literary sophistication-powerfully overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2025-10-01
Publication Date:
2025-10-01
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0814258247
ISBN13:
9780814258248
Weight:
399 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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