Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century

The Woman in the Mirror

AvMorgan Powell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these “vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not “women readers” but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:744 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Medieval Media and Culture
Antal sidor:434
Förlag:Arc Humanities Press
ISBN:9781641893770

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Dr. Morgan Powell is a scholar of the media history of the Middle Ages and Lecturer of English at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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Morgan Powell’s Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century: The Woman in the Mirror is a meticulously written and highly sophisticated book that argues for a re-evaluation and new understanding of the act of reading and of the meaning of a female reader (including in the form of an iconographic representation in manuscripts and as a textual motif) in the long twelfth century. Eschewing binaries such as literate/illiterate, vernacular/Latin, oral/written, male/female, and even text/picture, Powell’s approach offers a much more complex and ultimately convincing approach to understanding the rise of vernacular literature and the role women--or rather “the woman”--played in the twelfth century.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart One: Reading as sponsa et materChapter One: Mutations of the Reading WomanChapter Two: Reading as Mary DidChapter Three: Constructing the Woman’s MirrorChapter Four: Seeking the Reader/Viewer of the St. Albans PsalterPart Two: Reading the Widowed BrideChapter Five: Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Cant. 3:6); Rethinking the Woman Reader in Early Old French LiteratureChapter Six: Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Cant. 6:2); Mary’s Reading and the Epiphany of EmpathyChapter Seven: A New Poetics for aventiure; The Exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s ParzivalChapter Eight: The Heart, the Wound, and the Word—Sacred and ProfaneConclusionAppendix: The Prologue to ParzivalList of Works Cited

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