1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966838103321

Autore

Chance Jane <1945->

Titolo

The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women / / by Jane Chance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611363406

9781281363404

1281363405

9780230605596

0230605591

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages, , 2945-5944

Disciplina

809/.9335220902

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval

Sex

Europe - History - 476-1492

Classical literature

Literature, Ancient

Medieval Literature

Gender Studies

History of Medieval Europe

Classical and Antique Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Works CitedIndex



Sommario/riassunto

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, 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957974803321

Autore

Taylor Daniel J

Titolo

Declinatio : a study of the linguistic theory of Marcus Terentius Varro / / Daniel J. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins B.V., , 1974

ISBN

1-283-09312-X

9786613093127

90-272-8658-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of linguistics, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

475

Soggetti

Latin language - Grammar, Historical

Linguistics - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis, University of Washington, 1970.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

DECLINATIO A STUDY OF THE LINGUISTIC THEORY OF MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; I. THE NATURE OF THE STUDY; II. THE NATURE OF



LANGUAGE; III. THE NATURE OF GRAMMATICAL INQUIRY; IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION; V. GLOSSARY; VI. INDEX VERBORUM; VII. INDEX LOCORUM; VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXTS CONSULTED; IX. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; The series Studies in the History of the Language Sciences

Sommario/riassunto

Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) was one of the most prolific writers in antiquity. However, of his De Lingua Latina only six of 25 books have survived, and these are neither complete nor free of textual corruption. This study is an attempt to provide an adequate, consistent, and comprehensive account of the linguistic theory with which Varro operated insofar as it can be recovered from the remains of De Lingua Latina.