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Autore: | Shaw Jan |
Titolo: | Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance : Architectures of Wonder in Melusine / / by Jan Shaw |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.93522 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature, Medieval |
Sociology | |
Literature | |
Literature—Philosophy | |
Culture—Study and teaching | |
Europe—History | |
Medieval Literature | |
Gender Studies | |
Literature, general | |
Literary Theory | |
Cultural Theory | |
European History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Chapter One: An Epistemology of Wonder -- Chapter Two: Wonder and Love -- Chapter Three: Building Gender -- Chapter Four: Architectures of Memory -- Chapter Five: Problematic Pasts and New Beginnings -- Conclusion: The Divine Ordo: Reprise. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and death—within a literary tradition that is more friendly to women’s agency than its continental counterparts. After establishing a “textual habitus of wonder,” Jan Shaw explores the tale in relation to a range of Middle English traditions including love and marriage, the spatial practices of women, the operation of individual and collective memory, and the legacies of patrimony. Melusine emerges as a complex figure, representing a multifaceted feminine subject that furthers our understanding of Middle English women’s sense of self in the world. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance |
ISBN: | 1-137-45046-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910255235203321 |
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