Figuring the feminine : the rhetoric of female embodiment in medieval Hispanic literature /

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Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval litera...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Jill, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Romance
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
Temas:
To 1500
Geschichte 500-1500.
Spanish literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Body image in literature.
Littérature espagnole > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Schéma corporel dans la littérature.
Image du corps dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Body image in literature
Gender identity in literature
Spanish literature
Women in literature
Altspanische Literatur > Motiv > Geschlechtsrolle.
Geschlechtsrolle > Motiv > Altspanische Literatur.
Altspanische Literatur > Motiv > Frauenkörper.
Frauenkörper > Motiv > Altspanische Literatur.
Literatur.
Spanisch.
Frau.
Motiv (Literatur)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary culture of the gendering of rhetorical and hermeneutical acts involved in the creation of texts and meaning, and the importance of the medieval Iberian textual tradition in this process, a complex multicultural tradition that is often overlooked in medieval literary scholarship. This study adopts an innovative methodology informed by current theories of the body and gender to approach Hispanic literature from a femininst perspective.Jill Ross offers new readings of medieval Hispanic texts (Latin, Castilian, and Hebrew) including Prudentius' Peristephanon, Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Shem Tov of Carrión's Battle Between the Pen and the Scissors, and several others. She highlights ways in which these texts contribute to the understanding of gender in medieval poetics and foreground questions of literary and cultural import. Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (305 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.
ISBN:9781442688100
1442688106

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