Literary Hybrids: Indeterminacy in Medieval & Modern French Narrative (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415967068)

Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.

Author: Erika E. Hess
ISBN-10: 0415967066
ISBN-13: 9780415967068
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2003
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.24w x 0.68d