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Lyric Discourse And Female Vocality: On The Unsilencing Of Silence, Christopher Callahan
Lyric Discourse And Female Vocality: On The Unsilencing Of Silence, Christopher Callahan
Christopher Callahan
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Hybrid Discourse And Performance In The Old French Pastourelle, Christopher Callahan
Hybrid Discourse And Performance In The Old French Pastourelle, Christopher Callahan
Christopher Callahan
When the pastourelle appears in French in the late twelfth century, some forty years after Marcabru's pioneering "L'autrier jost una sebissa," it is distinguished from its Occitan predecessors1 by two discursive features that have both made its typological classification a delicate issue2 and assured its longevity. The French pastourelle was first of all a pioneer in the mixing of social registers. Its characteristic confrontation between aristocratic narrator and shepherdess intersects both thematically and temporally with Andreas Capellanus's De amore3 and the two reflect, as Michel Zink has argued,4 preoccupations which were peculiar to France. Indeed, the pastorela did not acquire, …
Canon Law, Primogeniture, And The Marriage Of Ebain And Silence, Christopher Callahan
Canon Law, Primogeniture, And The Marriage Of Ebain And Silence, Christopher Callahan
Christopher Callahan
From the Introduction:
King Ebain's decision, at the close of the Roman de Silence,1 to wed its eponymous heroine, whom he has just restored to her rightful position as countess of Cornwall, strikes modern readers as impetuous and poorly conceived. This marriage is particularly disturbing in that it effects a complete reversal of the case which Master Heldris seems to be advancing on Silence's behalf. Marriage to the very sovereign who was responsible for her predicament hardly seems a
fitting resolution to a tale that belies its own misogynous rhetoric by presenting Silence and her subterfuge in a …