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Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century : The Woman in the Mirror /

The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Powell, Morgan, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2020]
Series:Medieval media cultures.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mutations of the Reading Woman
  • Reading as Mary Did
  • Constructing the Woman's Mirror
  • Seeking the Reader/Viewer of the St Albans Psalter
  • Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) : Rethinking the Woman Reader in Early Old French Literature
  • Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) : Mary's Reading and the Epiphany of Empathy
  • A New Poetics for Âventiure : The Exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
  • The Heart, the Wound, and the Word : Sacred and Profane
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : The Prologue to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.