Genre of Medieval Patience Literature - Development, Duplication, and Gender

Informationen zum Autor Robin Waugh is an associate professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Klappentext This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. Zusammenfassung This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory! Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Contents Introduction: Clarissimum in Feminis The Female Patience Figure as Speaker The Female Patience Figure as Frozen Speaker The Female Patience Figure as Counterfeit The Female Patience Figure as Frozen Empress The Female Patience Figure at an Extreme The Female Patience Figure as Shrine Index

Product details

• Authors: R Waugh, R. Waugh, Robin Waugh, Waugh Robin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9780230391864
• ISBN: 978-0-230-39186-4
• No. of pages: 247
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, Analyse;feminism;gender;Medieval Literature