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The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography : speaking the saint / / Gail Ashton



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Autore: Ashton Gail <1957-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography : speaking the saint / / Gail Ashton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 p.)
Disciplina: 235/.2/082
Soggetto topico: Christian women saints - History and criticism
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
Christian hagiography - History - To 1500
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-171) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; PART I; 1 Narration and narratorial control: the masculine voice; Mirk's Festial; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria; Early South-English Legendary; Legendys of Hooly Wummen; The Golden Legend; The Canterbury Tales; Saint Cecilia: a fissured text; Notes; PART II; 2 A concept of space and a notion of identity; Psychological space; Physical space; St Katherine; Maternity, paternity, and kinship; Notes; 3 Articulating an identity: speech, silence, and self-disclosure; Speech and silence
Patient control: a mimesisSt Katherine; Other voices: tears, melody, and angels; Notes; 4 Written on the body; Imitatio Christi: the site of the abject; Torture and violence: the rhythm of blood; Notes; Conclusion: song of the saint; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them.
Titolo autorizzato: The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-67449-X
1-280-33482-7
0-203-00491-4
0-203-17046-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825997403321
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Serie: Routledge research in medieval studies ; ; 1.