{"product_id":"9780802090980-figuring-the-feminine","title":"Figuring the Feminine","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature\u003cbr\u003eFiguring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFiguring the Feminine\u003c\/em\u003e examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary culture of the gendering of rhetorical and hermeneutical acts involved in the creation of texts and meaning, and the importance of the medieval Iberian textual tradition in this process, a complex multicultural tradition that is often overlooked in medieval literary scholarship. This study adopts an innovative methodology informed by current theories of the body and gender to approach Hispanic literature from a femininst perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJill Ross offers new readings of medieval Hispanic texts (Latin, Castilian, and Hebrew) including Prudentius' \u003cem\u003ePeristephanon,\u003c\/em\u003e Gonzalo de Berceo's \u003cem\u003eMilagros de Nuestra Señora\u003c\/em\u003e, Shem Tov of Carrión's \u003cem\u003eBattle Between the Pen and the Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e, and several others. She highlights ways in which these texts contribute to the understanding of gender in medieval poetics and foreground questions of literary and cultural import. \u003cem\u003eFiguring the Feminine\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41696385794145,"sku":"9780802090980","price":68.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27696727.jpg?v=1721982515","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780802090980-figuring-the-feminine","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}