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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... voice. Underpinning my selection of authors and texts is the conviction that writing cannot be understood in isolation from its intended and/or actual readership or audience, an audience that for some of these texts may be not ...
... voices and memories of the dead. Yet this does not necessarily make Marie's poems derivative and lacking innovation or what we would now think of as originality. Julian of Norwich, in her earlier Vision Showed to a Devout Woman, depicts ...
... granted greater authority below God himself than her secretary or hagiographer. Furthermore, it is useful to consider here the question of the woman's voice and its relationship to women's writing. Feminist discussions of women's.
... voice, speech and silence.@ Yet any consideration of women's voice, be it absent or present, mediated or muted, is problematic when the nature of the evidence is only textual. It can seem an impossible task to excavate the oral because ...
... voice, it considers the role of the secretary in the production of women's letters, and what multiple drafts illustrate about the process of composition. Here scrutiny of the original letters also enables exploration of what surviving ...
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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 |