Sobre mujeres, espejos y mentiras: discursos femeninos y mise en abyme de la enunciación en la literatura francesa medieval

Abstract

This article focuses on the phenomenon known as mise en abyme of the enuntiation in medieval French literature, that is, on the diegetic representation of the text’s producer and/or of the context that has conditioned this production. We will analyse the frequent choice of female characters as the author’s fictional double; and the different nuances of this display of the mechanisms of writing, depending on the literary genre, the period, or the author’s gender.