Silence in the Sewing Chamber
Le Roman de Silence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9835294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Tolmie (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-26 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1128 • E-ISSN: 1468-2931 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fs/knn127 |
| OpenAlex | W2048953727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Following on from Howard Bloch's investigation of a ‘refusal of univocal meaning’ in the thirteenth-century Roman de Silence , this article examines the poem as inviting critics to investigate the collapse of binary systems such as male/female, in/out, language/silence, learned/natural, reward/punishment, innocent/guilty. Moving away from Bloch's focus on poetic language, this article examines the poem's systematic conflation of a woman's life with images of death and captivity. The action of the poem, and the characters within the poem, draw our attention to issues of gender performance in such a manner as to render it impossible for the poem's conservative ending to unsay or undo (to silence) the main body of the romance
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Meaning (existential · Poetry · Punishment (psychology · Romance · Silence · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |