Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance : Architectures of Wonder in Melusine / / by Jan Shaw
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| Autore: |
Shaw Jan
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| Titolo: |
Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance : Architectures of Wonder in Melusine / / by Jan Shaw
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| 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 |
| Sex | |
| Literature | |
| Literature - Philosophy | |
| Culture - Study and teaching | |
| Europe - History | |
| Medieval Literature | |
| Gender Studies | |
| Literary Theory | |
| Cultural Theory | |
| European History | |
| 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: | 9781137450463 |
| 1137450460 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255235203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
The New Middle Ages, . 2945-5944