By Brooke Heidenreich Findley (auth.)
ISBN-10: 1137113065
ISBN-13: 9781137113061
ISBN-10: 1349294578
ISBN-13: 9781349294572
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As I will argue, Christine alludes to but ultimately rejects the trope of the poet heroine, choosing instead to develop her own autobiographical authorial persona, one that emphasizes her learning rather than her body, and reason rather than erotic passion. While Christine’s turning away from the figure of the poet heroine cannot be generalized, it does emphasize that the poet heroine exhibits a textual rather than a biological femininity, and reiterates the importance of reading such tropes against historical women’s voices whenever possible.
33 Her “golden limb,” as Burns terms it, represents an extreme rendition of the courtly lady’s beautiful body: Nicolette has distilled the text’s discourse, making of her own body an object at once more marvelous and less human. 34 While Nicolette’s body makes up the substance of her message in one sense, the text claims that it interferes with that message in another. 21–22) [they looked at her and saw she was so beautiful that they were utterly disconcerted]. The shepherds’ eventual rendering of Nicolette’s message for Aucassin is colored by their vision of her beauty: they surround Nicolette’s original words with an elaborate account of their meeting with the heroine, and especially her stunning appearance.
Caroline Walker Bynum provides a specifically medieval context for ideas about gender crossing and cross-dressing. ”80 Bynum finds that medieval culture repeatedly thematizes ideas of crossing over and mixing between genders: “medieval thinkers and artists [ . . ] saw [ . . 82 Bynum further shows that, as an actual practice, cross-dressing was fairly common among women, but uncommon and potentially more disturbing among men. 84 A split similar to the one Bynum documents is evident in the texts I study here: cross-dressing is consistently used by female characters as a practical tool, but by the occasional male character as a metaphor for assuming the writer’s role.
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