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Performing women in the middle ages: sex, gender and the Iberian lyric
The New Middle Ages, Palgrave Macmillan
2005
Abstract
"Performing Women in the Middle Ages approaches medieval lyric poetry through the lens of gender and performance theory and demonstrates how comic-obscene and comic-erotic songs put identity into play, including sex/sexuality, gender, rank, and social status. Denise K. Filios draws on modern ethnographic and performance studies to fill gaps in the medieval written record, reconstructing lyric performances, exploring how women performed themselves as poetic characters ventriloquized by male poets, and examining how men impersonated female characters. Many of the Galician-Portuguese and Castilian poems she analyzes are available here in English for the first time. This study also explores the cultural context of these songs, including the sites within which they were sung/set and the underlying erotic associations that inform these comic-obscene and comic-erotic songs."--Jacket.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Performing women in the middle ages: sex, gender and the Iberian lyric
- Creators
- Denise K Filios - University of Iowa, Spanish and Portuguese
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; New York
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- ISBN
- 140396730X; 9781403967305
- Number of pages
- 261 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2005
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983949678102771
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