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Book The Pastourelle

Download or read book The Pastourelle written by William Powell Jones and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Pastourelle

Download or read book The Medieval Pastourelle written by William Doremus Paden and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rape and Representation

Download or read book Rape and Representation written by Lynn A. Higgins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself. Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English, American and African-American, German, African, Brazilian, Classical, and French literatures and film present a wide range of texts from different historical periods and cultures. Contributors demythologize patriarchal representation in literature and art in order to show how it makes rape seem natural and inevitable. Contributors include: the editors, John J. Winkler, Patricia Klindiest Joplin, Susan Winnett, Ellen Rooney, Coppélia Kahn, Eileen Julien, Marta Peixoto, Kathryn Gravdal, Carla Freccero, Nellie V. McKay, Nancy A. Jones, and Froma I. Zeitlin. Their work raises pressing--and often difficult--questions for feminist criticism.

Book Renaissance Resonance

Download or read book Renaissance Resonance written by Russell Ganim and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reversing the predominant critical interpretation of La Ceppède and the Théorèmes, this study claims that literary contexts and avatars act as a point of entry into devotion. The book reads La Ceppède from the inside out, asking principal question: How does the literary initiate an exploration of the theological? Focusing on the ways in which the Théorèmes transform literature into a potential instrument of salvation, the text looks at La Ceppède's adaptation of different Renaissance lyric types. Modulation of the formal and thematic traits of lyric subgenres such as the blason, the baiser, the pastoral and pastourelle, as well as the emblem allow La Ceppède to develop and exploit literature as a contemplative framework. The goals in taking this approach are to emphasize La Ceppède's originality in terms of representing the Christian body and spiritually erotic imagery. This methodology also highlights La Ceppède's use of lyric subgenre as a means of unifying the first and second volumes of the Théorèmes. In its final chapter, the book compares and contrasts La Ceppède's appropriation of lyric forms with that of other Renaissance poets such as Lazare de Selve, Jean de Sponde, and Marguerite de Navarre. The work concludes by arguing that the contribution of La Ceppède's text lies in the singularity of its narrative structure, its poetic mission, and its depiction of Christ's humanity. Literary structure becomes meditative structure, as lyric form becomes a vehicle toward redemption.

Book Strategic Rewriting

Download or read book Strategic Rewriting written by David Lee Rubin and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-based, innovative survey of rewriting in several modalities: translation, adaptation, recycling, appropriation, and re-mediation, along with the effect of each on form and meaning, kind and canon, historical and discursive continuity, as well as the conceptualizing of gender. Essays on Du Bellay, Montaigne, La Ceppède, Tbéophile de Viau, Corneille, d'Aubignac, La Fontaine, Diderot, and recent Anglo-American translations of La Princesse de Cleves.

Book Res Verba

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  • Author : Joseph a Dane
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-08-28
  • ISBN : 900462533X
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Res Verba written by Joseph a Dane and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ravishing Maidens

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  • Author : Kathryn Gravdal
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2010-08-03
  • ISBN : 0812200330
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Ravishing Maidens written by Kathryn Gravdal and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: sometimes through humor and aestheticization, sometimes through the use of social and political themes, but especially through the romanticism of rape scenes.

Book Quarterly Calendar

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of Chicago
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 850 pages

Download or read book Quarterly Calendar written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Sex Lives

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  • Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2023-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501771892
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Medieval Sex Lives written by Elizabeth Eva Leach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript—a fourteenth-century compilation that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics composed over two centuries alongside a narrative account of elaborate courtly festivities centered on a week-long tournament—Elizabeth Eva Leach explores two distinct but related lines of inquiry: first, why the lyric tradition of "courtly love" had such a long and successful history in Western European culture; and, second, why the songs in the Bodleian manuscript would have been so important to the book's compilers, owners, and readers. The manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial attributions make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its arrangement of the lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the relationship between this long musical tradition and the emotional and sexual lives of its readers. Combining an original account of the manuscript's contents and their likely social milieu with in-depth musical and poetic analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics, whether read or heard aloud, provided a fertile means of propagating and enabling various sexual scripts in the Middle Ages. Drawing on musicology, literary history, and the sociology and psychology of sexuality, Medieval Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.

Book The Medieval French Pastourelle Tradition

Download or read book The Medieval French Pastourelle Tradition written by Geri L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular genres created and performed by Medieval troubadours and trouveres was the pastourelle. In this work Geri Smith examines the genre in the hands of three Medieval masters Adam de la Halle, Jen Froissart, and Christine de Pizan.

Book Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature

Download or read book Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature written by Sarah Baechle and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency, and survivors’ speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking about sexual violence today. In addition to embodying the possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles. The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically tailored to the undergraduate classroom. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.

Book Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature

Download or read book Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature written by and published by Slatkine. This book was released on with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wings of the Doves

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  • Author : Elena Lombardi
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0773539719
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Wings of the Doves written by Elena Lombardi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic love of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta - a classic story of passion and death - revisited through the lenses of literature, philosophy, and theology.

Book Personae and Poiesis

Download or read book Personae and Poiesis written by Próspero Saíz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revisiting the Codex Buranus

Download or read book Revisiting the Codex Buranus written by Tristan E. Franklinos and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enables the less well-known aspects of the Codex Buranus to receive greater scrutiny, and bring new perspectives to bear on the more thoroughly explored parts of the manuscript. Making accessible existing discourse and encouraging fresh debates on the codex, the essays advocate fresh modes of engagement with its contents, contexts, and composition.

Book Medieval Oral Literature

Download or read book Medieval Oral Literature written by Karl Reichl and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.

Book REAL  Vol  5

Download or read book REAL Vol 5 written by Herbert Grabes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "REAL YEARBOOK VOL. 5 REAL E-BOOK".