03796nam 2200709Ia 450 991078479640332120230721030507.01-281-36340-597866113634060-230-60559-110.1057/9780230605596(CKB)1000000000399227(EBL)361623(OCoLC)560443018(SSID)ssj0001659240(PQKBManifestationID)16441716(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659240(PQKBWorkID)14986907(PQKB)10126948(SSID)ssj0000193096(PQKBManifestationID)11937201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193096(PQKBWorkID)10218046(PQKB)10524430(DE-He213)978-0-230-60559-6(MiAaPQ)EBC361623(Au-PeEL)EBL361623(CaPaEBR)ebr10194104(CaONFJC)MIL136340(EXLCZ)99100000000039922720070105d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe literary subversions of medieval women[electronic resource] /Jane Chance1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (230 p.)New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53105-7 1-4039-6910-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; NotesWorks CitedIndexThis 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.New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))Literature, MedievalWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureEuropeHistoryTo 1500Literature, MedievalWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistory809/.9335220902Chance Jane1945-188272MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784796403321The literary subversions of medieval women3725191UNINA