Literary Hybrids Cross Dressing Shapeshifting and Indeterminacy in Medieval and Modern French Narrative 1st Edition by Erika Hess 0415967066 9780415967068

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ISBN 10: 0415967066 

ISBN 13: 9780415967068

Author: Erika E. Hess

Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.

Table of contents:

Chapter1. Introduction: Narrative Apertures and Physical Hybridism—The Questioning of Authoritative Meaning

Chapter2. Passing for True: Gender as Performance in Le Roman de Silence and L’Enfant de sable

Chapter3. Parallel Ambiguities: Narrative and Generic

Chapter4. The Ultimate Challenge to the Primacy of the Sexed Body

Chapter5. Conclusion: The Hybrid as Frame

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