LEADER 04108nam 2200697 450 001 9910456782103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8810-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442688100 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019263 035 $a(OCoLC)608944103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382164 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478301 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478301 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10419071 035 $a(PQKB)10544973 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430778 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224290 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672591 035 $a(DE-B1597)465356 035 $a(OCoLC)1013957321 035 $a(OCoLC)944176845 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442688100 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672591 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258252 035 $a(OCoLC)958565639 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019263 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFiguring the feminine $ethe rhetoric of female embodiment in medieval Hispanic literature /$fJill Ross 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$d©2008 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 311 $a0-8020-9098-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Carnal Knowledge: Metaphor, Allegory, and the Embodiment of Truth -- $t2. Dynamic Writing and Martyrs' Bodies in Prudentius's Peristephanon -- $t3. Macho Words: Writing, Violence, and Gender in the Poema de mio Cid -- $t4. The Metaphorics of Mary: Language and Embodiment in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora -- $t5. Undressing the Libro de buen amor -- $t6. Configuring Culture: Writing the Hybrid in Shem Tov of Carrión -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFiguring 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. 606 $aSpanish literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aGender identity in literature 606 $aBody image in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSpanish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aGender identity in literature. 615 0$aBody image in literature. 676 $a860.9/3522 700 $aRoss$b Jill$f1961-$0901390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456782103321 996 $aFiguring the feminine$92014774 997 $aUNINA