| Description |
xii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
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Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Falconry culture as reading practice -- Control: Aesthetics of training in Frederick II's De arte venandi cum avibus -- Release: Sexual dimorphism as poetic form in the Sonnet "Tapina in me" -- Enclosure: Reading Marie de France's Yonec through the Harley 978 Hawking Treatise -- Seeling: Sir Orfeo's Heurodis and memory training in the Auchinleck Lay -- Mewing: Molting the literary trope of the changeable woman in adultery narratives -- Conclusion: Healing: Squire's Tale, metonymy, and female falconers. |
| Summary |
"Uses readings from Sir Orfeo, Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume de Machaut, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, among others, to uncover literary forms that arise from representations of avian and female bodies and to demonstrate how cultural literacy in the art of falconry mapped onto poetry and challenged patriarchal control"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Falconry in literature.
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Falconry in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Literature, Medieval -- Theory, etc. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9780814215487 (cloth) |
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0814215483 (cloth) |
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9780814282649 (ebook) |
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0814282644 (ebook) |
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