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The literary subversions of medieval women

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chance, Jane, 1945
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: New Middle Ages
Subjects:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Gender studies: women
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230605596
Summary: This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2007.
Carrier Form: 232 p.
ISBN: 9781403969101
9780230605596 :
0230605591 :
CLC: I11
Contents: The Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized * St. Agnes and the Emperor's Daughter in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Roman Church * Marie de France Versus King Arthur: Lanval's Gender Inversion as Breton Subversion * Marguerite Porete's Annihilation of the Character Reason in Her Fantasy of an Inverted Church * Unhomely Margery Kempe and St. Catherine of Siena: A"ComownycacyonA" and A"ConversacyonA" as Homily * Toward a Minor Literature: Julian of Norwich's Annihilation of Original Sin.

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