Desire by gender and genre in trouvère song / Helen Dell.
| Author/creator | Dell, Helen |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer, 2008. |
| Description | x, 241 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Gallica ; v. 10 Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 10. ^A713718 |
| Contents | Introduction: A kaleidoscope of différance -- The song system I. An unstable hierarchy: the unmarked masculine -- The song system II. The ignoble words of Eve: femininity in the system -- Desire by gender and genre I. Low lusts and high desires: pastourelle and chanson -- Desire by genre and gender II. Ignoble desires of the triumphalist chanson d'ami -- Chronotopes of desire I. Case-study of a malmariée: feminine space-times -- Chronotopes of desire II. The contained and containing heart: masculine space-times -- Desiring differently. The chanson in the feminine voice -- Afterthoughts: "[t]hat's not it" and "that's still not it". |
| Abstract | This study brings the songs of the trouvères to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sexual difference and unconscious desire. In trouvère song desire functions as a means of generic and 'genderic' differentiation. The trouvères distinguished between sexual need or lust and desire, the latter usually confined to the masculine voice in high style. Less exalted persons, in whose company women were already implicitly included, appear as incapable of desire in the fin'amors register. Critics have treated the issue of desire as represented in the courtly chanson but, because criticism has followed the trouvères' distinction between desire and need, discussion of desire has been limited to songs in the courtly register rather than across the system of genres. Desire in Lacan's sense, that is unconscious desire, is present in all genres and voices and this book unearths the unspoken desires of trouvère song by an attention to the characteristic means by which subjects subvert their demands in different genres. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781843841647 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1843841649 (hbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML182 .D45 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |