1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456782103321

Autore

Ross Jill <1961->

Titolo

Figuring the feminine : the rhetoric of female embodiment in medieval Hispanic literature / / Jill Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-8810-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/3522

Soggetti

Spanish literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Women in literature

Gender identity in literature

Body image in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 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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Record Nr.

UNISA996392450303316

Titolo

The testamentes of the twel[ue] patriarches [[electronic resource] ] : the sonnes of Iacob: tra[n]slated out of the Greeke into Latine by Rober[t] Grosthed, sometime Bishop of Lincolne, and out of hys copy into French and Dutch by others: Now Englished by A. G. To the credit whereof an auncient Greeke copye written in parchment, is kept in the Vniversity Library of Cambridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

At London, : Printed by Iohn Daye [and J. Kingston], dwelling ouer Aldersgate, 1581

Descrizione fisica

[5], 77, [2] leaves : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

GrossetesteRobert <1175?-1253.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation sometimes attributed to Anthony Gilby or to Arthur Golding.

Additonal printer's name from STC.

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio regiæ maiestatis.

Kingston printed quires C-K--STC.

Imperfect; title page and margins cropped with loss of print; leaf 7 lacking.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.



Sommario/riassunto

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