Medieval Women's WritingJohn Wiley & Sons, 18 abr 2013 - 216 páginas Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions:
Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates. |
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... conversations. It is through knowing her that l have gained new insights into how collaboration and feminism work, and work together. This book is, therefore, dedicated to Clare. A Note on the Texts In this book, accessibility has.
... collaborative enables us to grasp the nature and extent of women's engagement with and contribution to literary culture. This introduction addresses two central questions. The first is: What can studies of medieval women's writing ...
... collaboration between a female 'author' and male secretaries. Furthermore, at the end of the final chapter on the letters of the Paston women, I specifically examine the problems with trying to identify the 'gender' of a narrative voice ...
... collaborative texts), and of literary production (to include privately circulated and uncirculated manuscripts and domestic or household texts as well as more widely disseminated or professionally published works). It is equally crucial ...
... collaboration (especially in relation to visionary and devotional writing and hagiography) and patronage. In this respect our definitions need to extend far beyond the author-function described by Foucault. Thus, for example, while ...
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Marie de France fl 11801 | 25 |
Legends and Lives of Women Saints Late Tenth | 48 |
Julian of Norwich 134213after 1416 | 76 |
Margery Kempe c 1373after 1439 | 99 |
The Paston Letters 14401489 | 119 |