Medievalists.net » Jean Renart http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Looking Back: Medieval French Romance and the Dynamics of Seeing http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/looking-back-medieval-french-romance-and-the-dynamics-of-seeing/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/looking-back-medieval-french-romance-and-the-dynamics-of-seeing/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:53:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38237 This dissertation builds upon the work of feminist medievalists and other literary and cultural scholars to argue that sight, and objects that are seen, articulate love relationships between characters in medieval romances, and that seeing is frequently a locus of resistance to gender norms the texts both establish and refuse to accept.

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