Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature
Title | Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Lomperis |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780812213645 |
Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.
Minding the Body
Title | Minding the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Brzezinski Potkay |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
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This is a balanced account: Potkay and Evitt outline how deeply entrenched misogyny was in medieval society, while they examine the opportunities open to women in religious and secular life. With solid scholarship and lively prose, the authors succeed in uncovering both the perceptions and realities of female life in medieval Europe.
Promised Bodies
Title | Promised Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Dailey |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2013-08-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 023153552X |
In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace. The writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in sophisticated ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of the theological milieu of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Crossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries. She establishes new criteria to more consistently understand and assess the singularity of women's mystical texts and, by underscoring the similarities between men's and women's writings of the time, collapses traditional conceptions of gender as they relate to differences in style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality.
Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature
Title | Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Ruth Evans |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2005-08-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134931816 |
This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time. Works and writers covered include: * Chaucer * Margery Kempe * Christine de Pisan * The Katherine group of Saints' Lives * Langland's Piers Plowman * Medieval cycle drama Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.
Bodytalk
Title | Bodytalk PDF eBook |
Author | E. Jane Burns |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1993-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780812214055 |
In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed to convey.
Women's Space
Title | Women's Space PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Chieffo Raguin |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791483711 |
This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative focus brings attention to gender and space as experienced in the medieval parish as well as in monastic and cathedral space. Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female presence. Essays on the York religious cycle, the chronicle of the monastery at Ely, and The Book of Margery Kempe explore how medieval writers used texts as fictive spaces on which to graft responses to the gendered uses of real church buildings. These text-based essays are juxtaposed with tightly focused archival research in art history and history on Florentine patronage and English parish seating, as well as with more broadly synthetic studies on access of women to shrines and on gendered left-right placement in ritual art.
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
Title | Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 676 |
Release | 2009-03-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135221294 |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.