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Anne
L. Klinck and Ann Marie Rasmussen, eds.
Medieval Woman's Song:
Cross-Cultural
Approaches.
Philadelphia:
Pennsylvania University Press, 2002.
The
Middle
Ages series.
viii, 280pp.
Hardback ISBN
0812236246.
Publisher's
recommended price $49.95/£35.00
The
number of surviving
medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small,
some
of the best known being those of the trobairitz, the female
troubadours
of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that
constructs
a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice.
Some
of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz);
many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A
"woman's song" in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on
the
subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual
candor,
and apparent artlessness.
The
chapters in Medieval
Woman's Song bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to
examine
how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing
consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the
long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct
entities
female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What
is
at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural
and
generic construction.
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