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Author : Andrée Kahn Blumstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Misogyny and Idealization in the Courtly Romance written by Andrée Kahn Blumstein and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrée Kahn Blumstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Misogyny and Idealization in the Courtly Romance written by Andrée Kahn Blumstein and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226059901
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love written by R. Howard Bloch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521619363
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which focused on knights, it starts from the perspective of the woman reader/listener. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, it suggests that romances taught gender roles, often inviting readers to criticise and resist them.
Author : Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113670020X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance written by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the metaphor of topography as a mechanism for the inscription of gender roles in Arthurian romance.
Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019103729X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Case for Women in Medieval Culture written by Alcuin Blamires and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a case for women. But hitherto studies of profeminine attitudes in that periods culture have tended to concentrate on courtly literature or on female visionary writings or on attempts to transcend misogyny by major authors such as Christine de Pizan and Chaucer. This book sets out to demonstrate something different: that there existed from early in the Middle Ages a corpus of substantial traditions in defence of women, on which the more familiar authors drew, and that this corpus itself consolidated strands of profeminine thought that had been present as far back as the patristic literature of the fourth century. The Case for Women surveys extant writings formally defending women in the Middle Ages; breaks new ground by identifying a source for profeminine argument in biblical apocrypha; offers a series of explorations of the background and circulation of central arguments on behalf of women; and seeks to situate relevant texts by Christine de Pizan, Chaucer, Abelard, and Hrotsvitha in relation to these arguments. Topics covered range from the privileges of women, and pro-Eve polemic, to the social and moral strengths attributed to women, and to the powerful modelsfrequently disruptive of patriarchal complacencypresented by Old and New Testament women. The contribution made by these emphases (which are not to be confused with feminism in a modern sense) to medieval constructions of gender is throughout critically assessed, and the book concludes by asking how far defenders were controlled by, or able to query, assumptions about what was natural (and therefore imagined inflexible) in gender theory.
Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855660830
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Chrétien de Troyes written by Douglas Kelly and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supplement to the 1976 original bibliography reflects the expanding scope of modern Chrétien studies, including items from around the world, with the assistance of an international team of scholars. The Supplement builds on and completes the Chrétien de Troyes Bibliography first published in 1976. Together the two volumes constitute the fullest and most complete bibliographical source now available on this major medieval author. Chrétien de Troyes bequeathed a corpus of highly original and widely influential Arthurian romances. Indeed, his direct or indirect influence continued throughout the middle ages and beyond into modern times. The Bibliographypermits students of medieval romance to quickly identify the areas in which Chrétien scholarship has been active. Items are listed under twenty-two topics, with numerous sub-sections under each topic, and cross-references for items that treat more than one of the topics. The broad geographic and linguistic scope of modern Chrétien studies is evident in items not only from western Europe and North America, but also from the growing body of medieval scholarship in eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Australasia. To ensure accuracy and completeness, the editor has been assisted by scholars competent in the many languages in which Chrétien studies are now published, most notably in Japanese, Welsh, Rumanian, Hungarian and Polish, as well as by other scholars and librarians who generously provided assistance and information in finding items difficult to access.
Author : Joseph J. Gwara
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855660281
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Studies on the Spanish Sentimental Romance, 1440-1550 written by Joseph J. Gwara and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of `sentimental romance' re-examined and redefined.
Author : Peter Meister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Healing Female in the German Courtly Romance written by Peter Meister and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren S. Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026291
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage written by Warren S. Smith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.
Author : Penny Schine Gold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226300897
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Lady and the Virgin written by Penny Schine Gold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as expressed in both image and experience reflect a common pattern of ambivalence and contradiction. Thus, women are seen as both helpful and harmful, powerful and submissive, and the actuality of women's experience encompasses women in control and controlled, autonomous and dependent. Vividly recreating the rich texture of medieval life, Gold effectively and eloquently goes beyond a simple equation of social context and representation. In the process. she challenges equally simple judgments of historical periods as being either "good" or "bad" for women. "[The Lady and the Virgin] presents its findings in a form that should attract students as well as their instructors. The careful and controlled use of so many different kinds of sources . . . offers us a valuable medieval case study in the inner-relationship between the segments of society and its ethos or value system."—Joel T. Rosenthal, The History Teacher "Something of a tour de force in an interdisciplinary approach to history."—Jo Ann McNamara, Speculum "[A] well-written, extremely well-researched book. . . . The Lady and the Virgin is useful, readable, and well informed."—R. Howard Bloch, Modern Philology
Author : M Shepherd
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004649840
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Re-Creation in Thirteenth-Century Romance written by M Shepherd and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Howard Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521224586
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Irony in the Medieval Romance written by Dennis Howard Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the role played by irony in one particular medieval genre: the romance. The author discusses the themes to which irony is applied, the types of irony most commonly employed, and the reasons, social and aesthetic, for the prevalence of irony in this genre.
Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198186755
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (867 download)
Download or read book What is a Woman? written by Toril Moi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the sex/gender distinction really always fundamental to feminist thought? Arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Toril Moi challenges dominant trends in feminist and cultural theory.
Author : Felicity A. Nussbaum
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813164079
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Brink of All We Hate written by Felicity A. Nussbaum and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is it not monstrous, that our Seducers should be our Accusers? Will they not employ Fraud, nay often Force to gain us? What various Arts, what Stratagems, what Wiles will they use for our Destruction? But that once accomplished, every opprobrious Term with which our Language so plentifully abounds, shall be bestowed on us, even by the very Villains who have wronged us" -- Laetitia Pilkington, Memoirs (1748). In her scandalous Memoirs, Laetitia Pilkington spoke out against the English satires of the Restoration and eighteenth century, which employed "every opprobrious term" to chastise women. In The Brink of All We Hate, Felicity Nussbaum documents and groups those opprobrious terms in order to identify the conventions of the satires, to demonstrate how those conventions create a myth, to provide critical readings of poetic texts in the antifeminist tradition, and to draw some conclusions about the basic nature of satire. Nussbaum finds that the English tradition of antifeminist satire draws on a background that includes Hesiod, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal, as well as the more modern French tradition of La Bruyere and Boileau and the late seventeenth-century English pamphlets by Gould, Fige, and Ames. The tradition was employed by the major figures of the golden age of satire -- Samuel Butler, Dryden, Swift, Addison, and Pope. Examining the elements of the tradition of antifeminist satire and exploring its uses, from the most routine to the most artful, by the various poets, Nussbaum reveals a clearer context in which many poems of the Restoration and eighteenth century will be read anew.
Author : D. H. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513359
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance written by D. H. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.
Author : Russ McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457616
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Late Style written by Russ McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and highly wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes the components of this late style, illustrating in a series of topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition. Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his own professional career.
