Isbn: 9780813013916 - gender and text in the later middle ages (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. Light wear; no ownership markings.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780813013916. …

Hardback. Condición: Fine. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. dust jacket not issued. First Edition. "A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers. An ambitious attempt to understand that gender and text might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the woman writer and reader rather than through the more usual androcentric lens.[The] collection brings together for the first time in one place essays about a whole range of women writers from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and from places as distant as Spain and Sweden, as well as the more well-known French and English writers."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon College"Brings together, under three main categories, diverse methodologies from.some of the foremost scholars and interpreters of each type of material and approach."--Nadia Margolis, University of Massachusetts, AmherstThe women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages--women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions--often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popular oral theater, and focused in their choice of genre on lyric, romance, and confessional autobiography. These essays analyze their texts and reconstruct a medieval feminine aesthetic that begins a rewriting of cultural and literary history.Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University. She has written or edited 13 books on Old and Middle English literature, mythology, medieval women, and modern medievalism, including Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177 (UPF, 1994), Woman as Hero in Old English Literature, the Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (UPF 1990), and Christine de Pizan, The Letter of Othea to Hector, Translated, with Introduction and Interpretive Essay. She is the editor of the Focus Library of Medieval Women.Dark royal cloth with silver spine lettering and design. Textured end papers. Frontispiece. 342pp., index. Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Minor shelf wear. Ink date on title page. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. xv, 342 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. XV-342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. This work contains a collection of essays that analyses the texts of women writing in the Middle Ages and reconstructs a medieval feminine aesthetic that begins a rewriting of cultural and literary history.