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The layout of the published version may differ .  \nFemale Homosociality and the Marriage Plot: Women and Marriage Negotiation in Cligés and Le Chevalier au Lion  \nBrown, Amy  \nHow to cite  \nBROWN, Amy. Female Homosociality and the Marriage Plot: Women and Marriage Negotiation in Cligésand Le Chevalier au Lion. In: Parergon, 2016, vol. 33, n° 1, p. 49–68. doi: 10. 1353/pgn.2016.0003  \nThis publication URL: [https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:89274](https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:89274)  \nPublication DOI: 10. 1353/pgn.2016.0003  \n© This document is protected by copyright. Please refer to copyright holder(s) for terms of use. Last update in Archive ouverte UNIGE on 15.03.2023 01:59  \nFemale Homosociality and the Marriage Plot: Women and Marriage Negotiation in Cligésand Le Chevalier au Lion  \nAmy Brown  \nThis article considers marriage negotiation as a point from which to examine women ’s access to and use of power in the romance narrative. In Cligés, the foregrounding of female friendship provides an alternative to male-centred marriage narratives and frequently serves to highlight the importance of both consent and loving intention in a harmonious marriage. In Le Chevalier au Lion, female homosociality provides an alternative to the exchange of women between men, but the text also exploits the possibility of manipulation between women. In these two texts, the Chrétien corpus shows a sustained engagement with the potential uses and misuses of friendship between women.  \nIt is characteristic that the romances attributed to Chrétien de Troyes – with the exception of Le Chevalier de la Charette – associate marriage with harmonious society and with the hero ’s progress into adulthood and independent lordship.1 Among the works attributed to Chrétien, however, Cligés and Le Chevalier au Lion [are notable for the extent to which both use processes of arranging and consenting to marriage to open up complex issues relating to gender, power, and social status. In this article, I argue that the Chrétien corpus indicates a textual community aware of, and experimenting with, the relationship between female friendship and the power structures of male-dominated narratives. This awareness is not used to elevate the moral status of female friendship or of women as negotiators, but rather to engage with the possibilities and limitations of female resistance to male hegemony, and to invite reflection on whether the influence of women upon one another might be abused in such contexts.  \nCligés is the second earliest of the surviving works in the Chrétien corpus, and Le Chevalier au Lion either the third or fourth.. Both romances are two-part narratives. Cligés opens with a prologue detailing the voyage of the young Alexandre to England, and his service at King Arthur’s court, where he meets and marries Soredamors, with the aid of Guinevere. The main narrative concerns Alexandre’s son, Cligés, who has been disinherited by his uncle, Alis, and and who falls in love with Alis ’s betrothed Fénice.The couple hide their love, but eventually make a secret escape, with the aid ofFénice’s servant, Thessala. Le  \n1Donald Maddox, Fictions of Identity in Medieval France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 91–94. Some of the research for this article was completed with the aid ofa travel grant from the Medieval and Early Modern Centre, The University of Sydney.  \nChevalier au Lion opens with a recounted adventure in which one of Arthur ’s knights, Calogrenant, is defeated by a stranger knight at a mysterious fountain. The young Sir Yvain resolves to avenge Calogrenant ’s defeat, and, after killing the stranger knight, becomes trapped in this knight’s castle. There, he falls in love with and marries the widow Laudine, with the aid of her servant L","cbCainXCveGmxhRJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainXCveGmxhRJ","pdf",449831,22,"English","# Female Homosociality and the Marriage Plot\n## Women and power in marriage negotiation\n## Female friendship as alternative marriage narrative\n## Female homosociality, manipulation, and consent\n## Two-part romance structures in Cligés and Le Chevalier au Lion\n## Ethical implications and resistance to didactic readings","[{\"question\":\"How does the article frame marriage negotiation in the romance narratives?\",\"answer\":\"It treats marriage negotiation as a vantage point for analyzing women’s access to and use of power within romance storytelling.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does female friendship play in Cligés according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Female friendship foregrounds consent and loving intention, providing an alternative to male-centered marriage narratives and supporting a more harmonious marital outcome.\"},{\"question\":\"How is female homosociality used in Le Chevalier au Lion?\",\"answer\":\"It offers an alternative to the exchange of women between men, while also allowing the narrative to explore how manipulation can occur between women.\"}]","Female Homosociality and the Marriage Plot - Women and Marriage Negotiation in Cligés and Le Chevalier au Lion | PDF",8]