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The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography : speaking the saint / Gail Ashton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashton, Gail, 1957-
- Series:
- Routledge research in medieval studies ; 1.
- Routledge research in medieval studies ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian women saints--Biography--History and criticism.
- Christian women saints.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.
- Christian hagiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; PART I; 1 Narration and narratorial control: the masculine voice; Mirk's Festial; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria; Early South-English Legendary; Legendys of Hooly Wummen; The Golden Legend; The Canterbury Tales; Saint Cecilia: a fissured text; Notes; PART II; 2 A concept of space and a notion of identity; Psychological space; Physical space; St Katherine; Maternity, paternity, and kinship; Notes; 3 Articulating an identity: speech, silence, and self-disclosure; Speech and silence
- Patient control: a mimesisSt Katherine; Other voices: tears, melody, and angels; Notes; 4 Written on the body; Imitatio Christi: the site of the abject; Torture and violence: the rhythm of blood; Notes; Conclusion: song of the saint; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-67449-X
- 1-280-33482-7
- 0-203-00491-4
- 0-203-17046-6
- 9780203004913
- OCLC:
- 48139257
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