Figuring the Feminine : the Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ross, Jill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
To 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.
Image du corps dans la littérature.
Body image in literature
Gender identity in literature
Spanish literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Carnal Knowledge: Metaphor, Allegory, and the Embodiment of Truth
  • 2 Dynamic Writing and Martyrs' Bodies in Prudentius's Peristephanon
  • 3 Macho Words: Writing, Violence, and Gender in the Poema de mio Cid
  • 4 The Metaphorics of Mary: Language and Embodiment in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora
  • 5 Undressing the Libro de buen amor
  • 6 Configuring Culture: Writing the Hybrid in Shem Tov of Carrión
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z.

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