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Record Number: 46242 Author(s)/Creator(s): McInerney , Maud Burnett Contributor(s): Title: Queer Time for Heroes Source: Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie. Maud Burnett McInerney.  D. S. Brewer, 2021.  Pages 122 - 154. Available with a subscription from Cambridge Core and JSTOR: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24tr7fb.9 Description: "For the heroes of Troy, it turns out, romance time, associated with the love of women, the contract of marriage, and the establishment of heterosexual bonds, is not all that it's cracked up to be. The return to domesticity and the embrace of family is no great new beginning but only a return to death…Each text[the Roman d'Eneas and the Roman de Troie], moreover, proposes alternatives to romance time and the imperatives of heteronormativity, even if only to foreclose them. These alternatives take the form of queer characters, united in their belonging not to the world of marriage, procreation, and genealogy, with its emphasis on a time that continues from the past through the present and on into the future, but instead on a time characterized by asynchrony, excess, and death." [Page 122] Article Type: Book Chapter Subject (See Also): Amazons in Literature Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Poet- Roman de Troie Homosexuality Roman d'Eneas, Epic Romance, Literary Genre Sexuality Award Note: Geographic Area: France Century: 12 Primary Evidence: Illustrations: Table: Abstract: Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: Haverford College Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 2021. Language: English ISSN/ISBN: 9781843846154 (print); 9781800103641 (online)

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