ENGL 406 Lecture Notes - Findern, Thesis Statement, Courtly Love
5 Sep 2013
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Significant because one of the major pathways women could choose for their lives. No other opportunities for women to choose for their life: males assume women voices; hard to tell whether author was male or female, wide view assumption that there are no women literary authors. Literacy has to increase for this to happen. Parchment is less expensive: tells us how manuscript was associated with finderin family and other families in close proximity. Borrowed books and said give it back later: central thesis of the article. There not courtly love poems, there are sincere demonstrations of female emotions. Bases too much of the article on voice and authorship. Argument falls apart in the 21th century. Does a good job in highlighting how many assumptions we make when reading bodies of work. Gay individuals, groups of people: some women are educated. High class men are absent, brothers taught sisters, there were some free girl schools in london.
