Representing Rape In Medieval And Early Modern Literature
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Representing Rape In Medieval And Early Modern Literature
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Author : C. Rose
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Representing Rape In Medieval And Early Modern Literature written by C. Rose and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture. The volume has two purposes: first, to explore the resistance these pervasive representations generate and have generated for readers - especially for the female reader- and second, to explore what these representations tell us about social formations governing the relationships between men and women. More particularly, Rose and Robertson are interested in how representations of rape manifest a given culture's understanding of the female subject in society.
The Power Of A Woman S Voice In Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-02-13
The Power Of A Woman S Voice In Medieval And Early Modern Literatures written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.
Dismemberment In The Medieval And Early Modern English Imaginary
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Author : Frederika Elizabeth Bain
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-23
Dismemberment In The Medieval And Early Modern English Imaginary written by Frederika Elizabeth Bain and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with History categories.
The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching not only limbs from bodies but individuals from identity groups. Within this context it examines questions of legitimate and illegitimate violence, showing that such distinctions largely rested upon particular acts’ assumed symbolic meanings. Specific chapters address ways dismemberments manifested gender, human versus animal nature, religious and ethnic identity, and social rank. The book concludes by examining the afterlives of body parts, including relics and specimens exhibited for entertainment and education, contextualized by discussion of the resurrection body and its promise of bodily reintegration. Grounded in dramatic works, the study also incorporates a variety of genres from midwifery manuals to broadside ballads.
Palimpsests And The Literary Imagination Of Medieval England
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Author : Tatjana Silec
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-25
Palimpsests And The Literary Imagination Of Medieval England written by Tatjana Silec and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval English Law And Literature
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Author : Candace Barrington
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-08
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval English Law And Literature written by Candace Barrington and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with Law categories.
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Sexuality Sociality And Cosmology In Medieval Literary Texts
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Author : J. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-01-07
Sexuality Sociality And Cosmology In Medieval Literary Texts written by J. Brown and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-07 with History categories.
Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.
Communal Discord Child Abduction And Rape In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : J. Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-12-25
Communal Discord Child Abduction And Rape In The Later Middle Ages written by J. Goldberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-25 with History categories.
Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a successful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St Leonard's Hospital. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories.
Vernacular And Latin Literary Discourses Of The Muslim Other In Medieval Germany
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Author : J. Frakes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-05-23
Vernacular And Latin Literary Discourses Of The Muslim Other In Medieval Germany written by J. Frakes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the 'pre-post-colonializing' European cultures, the study provides important new perspectives.
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.
Vikings And The Vikings
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Author : Paul Hardwick
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-11-12
Vikings And The Vikings written by Paul Hardwick and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Performing Arts categories.
This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy. From a range of critical viewpoints, these all fresh essays explore the ways in which past and present representations of the Vikings converge in the show's richly textured dramatization of the rise and fall of Ragnar Loobrok--and the exploits of his heirs--creating what many viewers label a "true" representation of the age. From the show's sources in both saga literature and Victorian revival, to its engagement with contemporary concerns regarding gender, race and identity, via setting, sex, society and more, this first book-length study of the History Channel series appeals to fans of the show, Viking enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in medievalist representation in the 21st century.