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Let me first say that help on this will require knowledge of the Poem, I am not pretending to instruct or anything of the sort, in case anyone is reading this for those reasons, sorry.

If you have read this medival Lay, I would greatly apreciate an opinion. We discussed this in class today, ( I go to Davidson college, a small liberal arts college that competes academically with the likes of Duke, harvard, and such) and my professor proposed that Lanval is a poem describing a male fantasy. I found this to be a fairly thin reading of the poem because the Lanval is completely immasculated in the whole thing, and I couldn't see it working well. I proposed that it would be better read as a female fantasy, and good openly laughed at by several people, my teacher being one of them, and most of the women joining in ( my prof is also a female if that makes any difference).

We have a paper due soon and I decided to outline my view on the subject in an organized and presentable fashion, outlining how the poem could be read as a female fantasy.I was wondering if I am comming way out of no-where with this and am better of focusing in another direction?

I realize I didn't give much in the way of specifics simply because it is alot to write and alot to read, but if someone asks I will continue to answer questions about my views on the poem.

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