Write a research paper on the perspectives of women in Lanval, Dante’s Inferno, and Gilgamesh.We have paid close attention to issues in gender, both with female characters, female voicing, and with the powerful voice of a dominant woman writer from the middle ages, Marie de France. Has the experience of gender in these texts ( Gilgamesh, Dante’s Inferno and Lanval by Marie de France) surprised you in any way? That is, do you imagine that a modern reader, who may have little acquaintanceship with ancient, classical, and medieval literature, would have had certain assumptions about gender, authorship, voicing, and female subjectivity in early texts? Analyze the readings from Dante’s Inferno, Gilgamesh and Marie de France’s Lanval in this regard, and offer various examples of female subjectivity (feeling and experience) worth contemplating. Imagine that you are teaching these texts, what would you emphasize in order to alert modern readers of all genders to the experience of women and of gender as chronicled in these works? (Use 5-7 short quotations from the target texts.) Outside research of any kind is absolutely forbidden.
