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UNINA9910781111803321 |
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Ross Jill <1961-> |
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Figuring the feminine : the rhetoric of female embodiment in medieval Hispanic literature / / Jill Ross |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
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1-4426-9117-4 |
1-4426-8810-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Spanish literature - To 1500 - History and criticism |
Women in literature |
Gender identity in literature |
Body image in literature |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Carnal knowledge: metaphor, allegory, and the embodiment of truth -- Dynamic writing and martyrs' bodies in Prudentius's Peristephanon -- Macho words: writing, violence, and gender in the Poema de mio Cid -- The metaphorics of Mary: language and embodiment in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora -- Undressing the Libra de buen amor -- Configuring culture: writing the hybrid in Shem Tov of Carrión -- Conclusion. |
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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 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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910781556203321 |
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Oakley Seanna Sumalee |
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Common places [[electronic resource] ] : the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics / / Seanna Sumalee Oakley |
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Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2011 |
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9786613366269 |
1-283-36626-6 |
94-012-0695-3 |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Poetics |
Authors, African |
Postcolonialism in literature |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- OUT OF THE ABYSS: COMMONPLACES OF REPETITION AND REDEMPTION -- GLISSANT’S COMMON PLACES -- WALCOTT’S ALLEGORY OF HISTORY -- A BACKWARD FAITH IN WALCOTT’S “THE SCHOONER FLIGHT” -- CLAUDIA RANKINE: JANE EYRE’ |
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S BLUES AT THE END OF THE ALPHABET -- DEAR DIARY: AMANIFESTO – WEREWERE LIKING’S ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL -- RITUALIZING UTOPIA IN ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL -- MASKS OF AFFLICTION IN FRANKÉTIENNE’S HAITI -- FRANKÉTIENNE’S LOGORRHEA: AN EXCESS OF SEEMING -- “THE HORIZON DEVOURS MY VOICE”: NOTES ON TRANSLATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. |
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While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the “commonplace” to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attainable, differentially common future. Putting poets Frankétienne (Haiti), Werewere Liking (Côte d’Ivoire), Derek Walcott (St Lucia), and Claudia Rankine (Jamaica) in dialogue with Romantic poets and theorists, as well as with the more recent thinkers Édouard Glissant, Walter Benjamin, and Emmanuel Levinas, Oakley shows how African Atlantic poets formally revive Romantic forms, ranging from the social utopian manifesto to the poète maudit , in their pursuit of a redemptive allegory of African Atlantic experiences. Common Places addresses issues in African and Caribbean literary studies, Romanticism, poetics, rhetorical theory, comparative literature, and translation theory, and further, models a postcolonial critique in the aesthetic-ethical and “new aestheticist” vein. |
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