Writing Gender And Genre In Medieval Literature

Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Anglo-Saxon literature
ISBN : 0859917606

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Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature by Elaine Treharne Pdf

Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres. The essays in this annual English Association volume provide useful examples of how the conventions behind and the expectations evoked by literary modes and genres help to shape what purports to be an entirely essential and/or socially constructed aspect of identity of the 'he', 'she', or 'I' of the literary text. Ranging across materials from Old English Biblical poetry and hagiography to the late Middle English romances and fabliaux, the essays are united by a commitment to a variety of traditional scholarly methodologies. But each examines afresh an important aspect of what it means to be man or women, husband, son, mother, daughter, wife, devotee or love in the context of particular kinds of medieval literary texts. Contributors ANNE MARIE D'ARCY, HUGH MAGENNIS, DAVID SALTER, MARY SWAN, ELAINE TREHARNE, GREG WALKER.

Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1146491888

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Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature by Elaine Treharne Pdf

Author : Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521464949

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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt Pdf

Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.

Author : Laurie Finke
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822027849900

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Women's Writing in English by Laurie Finke Pdf

Taking as its guiding emblem Christine de Pizan's metaphor of a city of ladies, this volume refuses to treat the medieval woman writer as an anomaly, a lone genius who somehow managed to transcend the limitations of her sex. It insists that women have always participated fully, if not equally, with men in the creation of culture, even during the Middle Ages, and it examines the record of women's cultural participation in medieval England. Women's Writing in English: Medieval England examines women's writing not only in traditional genres such as poetry, drama, and romance, but in a variety of genres which are often excluded from literary canons including medical treatises, correspondence, and the visionary and devotional genres in which women wrote most prolifically.

Author : Nahir I. Otaño Gracia,Daniel Armenti
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838346

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Women's Lives by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia,Daniel Armenti Pdf

Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813013917

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Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages by Jane Chance Pdf

"A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers.... An ambitious attempt to understand hat 'gender' and 'text' might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the woman writer and reader rather than through the more usual androcentric lens...[The] collection brings together for the first time in one place essays about a whole range of women writers from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and from places as distant as Spain and Sweden, as well as the more well-known French and English writers."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon College "Brings together, under three main categories, diverse methodologies from...some of the foremost scholars and interpreters of each type of material and approach."--Nadia Margolis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 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. Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University. She has written or edited 13 books on Old and Middle English literature, mythology, medieval women, and modern medievalism, including Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177 (UPF, 1994), Woman as Hero in Old English Literature, the Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (UPF 1990), and Christine de Pizan, The Letter of Othea to Hector, Translated, with Introduction and Interpretive Essay. She is the editor of the Focus Library of Medieval Women.

Author : Anke Gilleir,Alicia A. Montoya,Suzanna van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004184633

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Women Writing Back / Writing Women Back by Anke Gilleir,Alicia A. Montoya,Suzanna van Dijk Pdf

Privileging both a transnational and a sociological approach, this volume explores the position of women in the early modern literary field, emphasising the international scope of their literature and examining their historical position, influence, network and dialogues.

Author : Victoria Blud
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844686

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The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 by Victoria Blud Pdf

An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.

Author : Dana Oswald
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842323

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Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature by Dana Oswald Pdf

A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature. Monsters abound in Old and Middle English literature, from Grendel and his mother in Beowulf to those found in medieval romances such as Sir Gowther. Through a close examination of the way in which their bodies are sexed and gendered, and drawing from postmodern theories of gender, identity, and subjectivity, this book interrogates medieval notions of the body and the boundaries of human identity. Case studies of Wonders of the East, Beowulf, Mandeville's Travels, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Sir Gowther reveal a shift in attitudes toward the gendered and sexed body, and thus toward identity, between the two periods: while Old English authors and artists respond to the threat of the gendered, monstrous form by erasing it, Middle English writers allow transgressive and monstrous bodies to transform and therefore integrate into society. This metamorphosis enables redemption for some monsters, while other monstrous bodies become dangerously flexible and invisible, threatening the communities they infiltrate. These changing cultural reactions to monstrous bodies demonstrate the precarious relationship between body and identity in medieval literature. DANA M. OSWALD is Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Author : Linda Lomperis,Sarah Stanbury
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812213645

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Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature by Linda Lomperis,Sarah Stanbury Pdf

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.

Author : Marcelle Theibaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135507855

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The Writings of Medieval Women by Marcelle Theibaux Pdf

"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

Author : Barbara H. Gold,Barbara K. Gold,Paul Allen Miller,Charles Platter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791432467

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Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts by Barbara H. Gold,Barbara K. Gold,Paul Allen Miller,Charles Platter Pdf

Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : Polity
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745632551

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Medieval Women's Writing by Diane Watt Pdf

Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134843336

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Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook by Carolyne Larrington Pdf

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.

Author : Massimiliano Bampi,Carolyne Larrington,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary form
ISBN : 9781843845645

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A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre by Massimiliano Bampi,Carolyne Larrington,Sif Rikhardsdottir Pdf

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.