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Autore |
Chance Jane <1945-> |
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Titolo |
The literary subversions of medieval women [[electronic resource] /] / Jane Chance |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36340-5 |
9786611363406 |
0-230-60559-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women and literature - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized; 2 St. Agnes and the Emperor's Daughter in Saxon Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Roman Church; 3 Marie de France versus King Arthur: Lanval's Gender Inversion as Breton Subversion; 4 Marguerite Porete's Annihilation of the Character Reason in Her Fantasy of an Inverted Church; 5 Unhomely Margery Kempe and St. Catherine of Siena: "Comunycacyon" and "Conuersacion" as Homily; 6 Conclusion: Toward a Minor Literature: Julian of Norwich's Annihilation of Original Sin; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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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. |
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