I do agree; courtly love is indeed an EPIC FAIL when you come back to the feminist reading.
I've got something in my head that I want to say, but I'm having trouble articulating it clearly. It's got something to do with the way that I've found it enjoyable to try fitting pop-culture relationships into the context of a much older and more rigid romantic form. And something to do with the way that, although I find certain (okay, most!) depictions of relationships problematic from a political point of view, I can still get a great deal of enjoyment out of them in terms of talking about literary context and...storytelling. Does that make any sense? I think I'm rambling. :D
(I think this thing that I'm failing to articulate is the reason that I found the whole Angel/Buffy storyline incredibly tedious, but found masses to entertain me in the Spike/Buffy arc. Somehow. I must think further on this.)
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I've got something in my head that I want to say, but I'm having trouble articulating it clearly. It's got something to do with the way that I've found it enjoyable to try fitting pop-culture relationships into the context of a much older and more rigid romantic form. And something to do with the way that, although I find certain (okay, most!) depictions of relationships problematic from a political point of view, I can still get a great deal of enjoyment out of them in terms of talking about literary context and...storytelling. Does that make any sense? I think I'm rambling. :D
(I think this thing that I'm failing to articulate is the reason that I found the whole Angel/Buffy storyline incredibly tedious, but found masses to entertain me in the Spike/Buffy arc. Somehow. I must think further on this.)