| Description |
1 online resource (x, 419 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Medieval media and culture |
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Medieval media and culture
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Mutations of the reading woman -- Reading as Mary did -- Constructing the woman's mirror -- Seeking the reader/ viewer of the St. Albans Psalter -- Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) : rethinking the woman reader in Early Old French literature -- Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) : Mary's reading and the Epiphany of Empathy -- A new poetics for Âventiure : the exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- The heart, the wound, and the word -- sacred and profane |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Chrétien de Troyes |
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Courtly Romance |
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Exegesis |
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Female Spirituality |
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Fiction |
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Use of images |
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Vernacular Literature |
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Wolfram von Eschenbach |
| Notes |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-410) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation
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German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism
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French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- History -- To 1500
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Women -- Religious life -- Europe -- History
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Women -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Women -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History
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French literature
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German literature -- Middle High German
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation
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Women and literature
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Women -- Books and reading
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Women -- Middle Ages
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Women -- Religious life
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781641893787 |
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1641893788 |
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