Michael Amey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Amey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Amey |
| SIGNATURE | AMEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Clothes Make the Man
This paper interrogates the gender identity of the protagonist in the thirteenth-century German romance Parzival by examining the role that clothing and nudity play in creating/exposing the hero’s gender. The young protagonist, Parzival, creates ‘gender trouble’ first by identifying knights’ armour with ladies’ clothes and then by arriving at King Arthur’s court dressed in clothes given to him by his mother, who wishes to exclude him from chivalr…
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Clothes Make the Man
This paper interrogates the gender identity of the protagonist in the thirteenth-century German romance Parzival by examining the role that clothing and nudity play in creating/exposing the hero’s gender. The young protagonist, Parzival, creates ‘gender trouble’ first by identifying knights’ armour with ladies’ clothes and then by arriving at King Arthur’s court dressed in clothes given to him by his mother, who wishes to exclude him from chivalr…
Art (1 works) · Chivalry (1 works) · Clothing (1 works) · Femininity (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Girl (1 works) · HERO (1 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (1 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (1 works) · History (1 works)