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Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century : The Woman in the Mirror / / Morgan Powell



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Autore: Powell Morgan <1959-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century : The Woman in the Mirror / / Morgan Powell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 419 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina: 809.021
Soggetto topico: Literature, Medieval - Appreciation
German literature - Middle High German, 1050-1500 - History and criticism
French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism
Women and literature - History - To 1500
Women - Religious life - Europe - History
Women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500
Women - Books and reading - Europe - History
Soggetto non controllato: Chrétien de Troyes
Courtly Romance
Exegesis
Female Spirituality
Fiction
Use of images
Vernacular Literature
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-410) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Mutations of the reading woman -- Reading as Mary did -- Constructing the woman's mirror -- Seeking the reader/ viewer of the St. Albans Psalter -- Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) : rethinking the woman reader in Early Old French literature -- Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) : Mary's reading and the Epiphany of Empathy -- A new poetics for AÌ‚ventiure : the exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- The heart, the wound, and the word--sacred and profane.
Sommario/riassunto: The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art.
Titolo autorizzato: Gender, reading, and truth in the twelfth century  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-64189-377-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910404141903321
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Serie: Medieval media cultures