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The Medieval Poet As Voyeur,New
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While Love Is Private, And In Medieval Literature Especially Is Seen As Demanding Secrecy, To Tell Stories About It Is To Make It Public. Looking, Often Accompanied By Listening, Is The Means By Which Love Is Brought Into The Public Realm And By Which Legal Evidence Of Adulterous Love Can Be Obtained. Medieval Romances Contain Many Scenes In Which Secret Watchers And Listeners Play Leading Roles, And In Which The Problematic Relation Of Sight To Truth Is A Central Theme. The Effect Of Such Scenes Is To Place The Poem'S Audience As Secret Watchers And Listeners; And In Later Medieval Narratives, As The Role Of The Storyteller Comes To Be Realized, The Poet Too Sees Himself In The Undignified Role Of A Voyeur. A. C. Spearing'S Book Explores These And Related Themes, First In Relation To Medieval And Modern Theories And Instances Of Looking, And Then Through A Series Of Readings Of Romances And Firstperson Narratives, Including Works By Beroul, Gottfried Von Strassburg, Chrtien De Troyes, Marie De France, Chaucer, Lydgate, Douglas, Dunbar, And Skelton. Its Focus On Looking Also Leads To The Recovery Of Some Less Wellknown Works Such As Partonope Of Blois And The Squire Of Low Degree. The General Approach Is Psychoanalytic, But The Reading Of Specific Medieval Texts Always Has Primacy, And This In Turn Makes Possible A Running Critique Of Current Conceptions Of The Gaze In Relation To Power And Gender.
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