Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3847
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Gaunt , Simon.
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  • Title: The Look of Love: The Gender of the Gaze in Troubadour Lyric
  • Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image.  Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 79 - 95.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Arnaut de Maruelh, Troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn, Troubadour Gaze Gender in Literature Lacan, Jacques, Psychoanalyst (1901-1981) Literature- Verse Occitan Literature Psychoanalytic Theory Sight Troubadours
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 12
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  • Abstract: This chapter's Lacanian reading of the gaze in troubadour lyric examines what happens when the gaze itself becomes the object of desire and how this affects the sex-gender system of the troubadour poetry. [(c)Emma Campbell and Robert Mills. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.]
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  • Author's Affiliation: Kings' College, London
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1403963436