Table of Contents: Erotic dawn-songs of the Middle Ages :

Main Author:	Sigal, Gale.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
Subjects:	Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism. Erotic poetry > History and criticism. Albas > History and criticism. TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Albas. Erotic poetry.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=54905

Table of Contents:

Theoretical and generic parameters
The lyric lady and the alba
pt. I. The alba lady: literary and social perspectives. The alba lady: literary perspectives. The humanized ideal. The alba lady: sex roles and social roles. Adulterous love and the alba. Eros in the socius. Power, gender, and class: the love triangle. Fin'amors: conflicting loyalties; divided selves
pt. II. Eros and identity. Eros and dawning identity. Nocturnal wonders: (k)night calls. Love's timeless utopia: regressive fantasies. Fusion, androgyny, inseparability. First light: mask and masquerade. Janus-faced dawn and the dualisms of love: pivot and potentiality. Cruel dawn. The dawn descends: the refrain. Conclusion: the fractured self: songs of mo(u)rning.