Representation of Women in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Author: Maria C. Pastore Passaro
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780889461437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maria C. Pastore Passaro
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780889461437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lesel Dawson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1474414109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.
Author: Barbara H. Gold
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1997-03-13
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780791432464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.
Author: Maria C. Pastore Passaro
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work explores the discussion of the idealization of women in medieval and Renaissance texts. This book has three main goals: to show textual connections between literary masterpieces (and thus, delineate a literary history from within the texts) in order to show how authors consciously or unconsciously interact with one another regardless of time and boundaries; to present biographical and autobiographical heroines, their work and legacy; and finally to grasp man's imaginary world of women.
Author: Rosemarie T. Morewedge
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1975-06-30
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1438413564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Those interested in both the present day role of woman and its historical evolution will find this work an informative and valuable introduction to the topic. Focusing on the actual position woman held in medieval society and on the surprisingly diverse representations of her position in literature and the visual arts, the six essays collected in this volume reflect concern with the development of her role from classical antiquity and oral, illiterative communities on the one hand, to Renaissance society on the other. Specialists in different fields examine the complexities of topics such as the direct relationship between the longevity of woman and the value society confers upon her; the changing functions of woman in illiterate, pre-literate, and literate society; the sophisticated portrayal of woman in the courtly romances; the implications of man's perception of woman as aesthetic and personal ideal bridging seemingly irreconcilable conflicts; woman's conscious assumption of an active role in the political and cultural life of her time; and the often caricatured, yet nonetheless sympathetic portrayal of woman in the margins of gothic manuscripts. The interdisciplinary approach followed in these essays allows the reader interested in a wholistic approach to trace concurrent developments over a long span of time from various perspectives. The approach also invites the attention of specialists in medieval social history, economics, art history, the heroic epic and the courtly romance, Petrarchism, and the transition from late medieval to early French Renaissance literature. The essays represent papers delivered at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies on The Role of the Woman in the Middle Ages.
Author: Lesel Dawson
Publisher: EUP
Published: 2019-11-27
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781474454643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge. It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate.
Author: Paola Tinagli
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997-06-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780719040542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.
Author: Carole Levin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780814318737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examining specific literary, historical, and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the changes in attitude toward women, the role and status of women, the dichotomy between public and private spheres, the prescriptions for women's behavior and the image of the ideal woman, and the difference between the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and Renaissance writers.--Back cover.
Author: Marilyn Migiel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780801497711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Refiguring Woman reassesses the significance of gender in what has been considered the bastion of gender-neutral humanist thought, the Italian Renaissance. It brings together eleven new essays that investigate key topics concerning the hermeneutics and political economy of gender and the relationship between gender and the Renaissance canon. Taken together, they call into question a host of assumptions about the period, revealing the implicit and explicit misogyny underlying many Renaissance social and discursive practices.