The Problem of Woman in Late-medieval Hispanic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Woman in Late-medieval Hispanic Literature write by Robert Archer. This book was released on 2005. The Problem of Woman in Late-medieval Hispanic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the problem of gender identity is vital to the large corpus of medieval Hispanic texts that discuss the nature of women. What is a woman? This book questions the persistent assumption that the large corpus of medieval Hispanic texts that discuss the nature of women can be defined in terms of the clichéd discourses of misogynism and defence of women, arguing instead that the problem of gender identity is vital to them all. The texts, some well-known, others which have received scant critical attention, are each discussed in their specific contexts and in relation to theostensible reasons for their composition, such as a political, literary, religious, or didactic 'agenda'. They are also related to the literary traditions in which they are written [misogynistic denunciation, satire, humour, defence, narrative debate, among others], and the particular theoretical problems arising from them are discussed. But it is also argued that the full meaning of the texts lies at the less immediately accessible level at which they address this very problem of definition, one which arises directly from the self-perpetuating contradictions of authoritative wisdom on the nature of women. ROBERT ARCHER holds the Cervantes Chair of Spanish, King's College London.
The Problem of Woman in Medieval Hispanic Literature
The Problem of Woman in Medieval Hispanic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Woman in Medieval Hispanic Literature write by Robert Archer. This book was released on 2005. The Problem of Woman in Medieval Hispanic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature
Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature write by E. Francomano. This book was released on 2008-05-26. Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain write by . This book was released on 2020-09-07. Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.
Figuring the Feminine
Figuring the Feminine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Figuring the Feminine write by Jill Ross. This book was released on 2008-03-15. Figuring the Feminine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary culture of the gendering of rhetorical and hermeneutical acts involved in the creation of texts and meaning, and the importance of the medieval Iberian textual tradition in this process, a complex multicultural tradition that is often overlooked in medieval literary scholarship. This study adopts an innovative methodology informed by current theories of the body and gender to approach Hispanic literature from a femininst perspective. Jill Ross offers new readings of medieval Hispanic texts (Latin, Castilian, and Hebrew) including Prudentius' Peristephanon, Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Shem Tov of Carrión's Battle Between the Pen and the Scissors, and several others. She highlights ways in which these texts contribute to the understanding of gender in medieval poetics and foreground questions of literary and cultural import. Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony.
