The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women


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The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women


The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-07-15

The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women written by Jane Chance and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-15 with History categories.


Winner of the 2008 SCMLA Book Prize!! This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed “unhomely” spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality—the homely female space—to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.



The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women


The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-08-06

The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women written by Jane Chance and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.


This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.



The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women


The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-09-24

The Literary Subversions Of Medieval Women written by Jane Chance and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.


This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.



Gender And Text In The Later Middle Ages


Gender And Text In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-11-07

Gender And Text In The Later Middle Ages written by Jane Chance and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with Literary Criticism categories.


The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages—women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions—often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popular oral theater, and focused in their choice of genre on lyric, romance, and confessional autobiography. These essays analyze their texts and reconstruct a medieval feminine aesthetic that begins a rewriting of cultural and literary history.



Medieval Women Writers


Medieval Women Writers
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Author : Katharina M. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1984

Medieval Women Writers written by Katharina M. Wilson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with European literature categories.


This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in English. Others are little read today because their literary fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and literary patronage. Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these writers in historical context and explores the question of the female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of her works in translation, and a bibliography.



Women Medievalists And The Academy Volume 1


Women Medievalists And The Academy Volume 1
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-05-22

Women Medievalists And The Academy Volume 1 written by Jane Chance and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with History categories.


Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines—including literature, philology, history, archaeology, art history, theology or religious studies, and philosophy—each essay delves into one woman’s life, intellectual contributions, and efforts to succeed in a male-dominated field. Together, these extraordinary personal histories constitute a new standard reference that speaks to a growing interest in women’s roles in the development of scholarship and the academy. The collection begins in the eighteenth century with Elizabeth Elstob and continues to the present, and includes—among more than seventy profiles—such important figures as Anna Jameson, Lina Eckenstein, Georgiana Goddard King, Eileen Power, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Whitelock, Susan Mosher Stuard, Marcia Colish, and Caroline Walker Bynum, among others.



Women Medievalists And The Academy Volume 2


Women Medievalists And The Academy Volume 2
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-05-22

Women Medievalists And The Academy Volume 2 written by Jane Chance and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with History categories.


Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines—including literature, philology, history, archaeology, art history, theology or religious studies, and philosophy—each essay delves into one woman’s life, intellectual contributions, and efforts to succeed in a male-dominated field. Together, these extraordinary personal histories constitute a new standard reference that speaks to a growing interest in women’s roles in the development of scholarship and the academy. The collection begins in the eighteenth century with Elizabeth Elstob and continues to the present, and includes—among more than seventy profiles—such important figures as Anna Jameson, Lina Eckenstein, Georgiana Goddard King, Eileen Power, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Whitelock, Susan Mosher Stuard, Marcia Colish, and Caroline Walker Bynum, among others.



The Writings Of Medieval Women


The Writings Of Medieval Women
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Author : Marcelle Theibaux
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17

The Writings Of Medieval Women written by Marcelle Theibaux and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.


"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana "The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum



Medieval Mythography Volume Two


Medieval Mythography Volume Two
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Author : Jane Chance
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-11-15

Medieval Mythography Volume Two written by Jane Chance and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.


The second volume in Jane Chance’s study of the history of medieval mythography from the fifth through fifteenth centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of historical and philosophical developments in the story of mythography reflects the ever-increasing importance of the subjectivity of the commentator. Through her vast and wide-ranging familiarity with hitherto seldom studied primary texts spanning nearly one thousand years, Chance provides a guide to the assimilation of classical myth into the Christian Middle Ages. Rich in insight and example, dense in documentation, and compelling in its interpretations, Medieval Mythography is an important tool for scholars of the classical tradition and for medievalists working in any language.



Women And Writing In Medieval Europe A Sourcebook


Women And Writing In Medieval Europe A Sourcebook
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Author : Carolyne Larrington
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02

Women And Writing In Medieval Europe A Sourcebook written by Carolyne Larrington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Literary Collections categories.


Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central areas of medieval women's lives and their relation to social and cultural institutions. Each section is contextualised with a brief historical introduction, and the materials span literary, historical, theological and other narrative and imaginative writing. The writings here uncover and confound the stereotype of the medieval woman as lady or virgin by demonstrating the different roles and meanings that the sign of woman occupied in the imaginative space of the medieval period. Larrington's clear and accessible editorial material and the modern English translations of all the extracts mean this work is ideally suited for students. Women and Writing in Early Europe: A Sourcebook also contains an extensive and fully up-to-date bibliography, making it not only essential reading for undergraduates and post graduates but also a valuable tool for scholars.