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The genre of medieval patience literature = development, duplication, and gender /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The genre of medieval patience literature/ Robin Waugh.
Reminder of title:	development, duplication, and gender /
Author:	Waugh, Robin,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 230 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - Middle English, 1100-1500 -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230391871
ISBN:	9780230391871 (electronic bk.)

The genre of medieval patience literature = development, duplication, and gender /
Waugh, Robin,1959-

The genre of medieval patience literaturedevelopment, duplication, and gender /[electronic resource] :Robin Waugh. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 230 p.) :ill. - The new Middle Ages. - New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

This project records the development and history of medieval patience literature by identifying and mapping the important shift in early patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus more on female sufferers in particular. The argument employs feminist revisions of genre-theory to show how specific works fit into the evolution of the genre, and identifies and defines the important concept of counterfeit consciousness. The book first defines the genre through examples of patience literature from the martyrologies to the Legenda aurea, where one may note the emergence of feminine space as a representation of women's expression. Then, through a revision of the conventional understanding of Grisilde's passivity, the book shows how Chaucer's Clerk's Tale works as a sophisticated reductio ad absurdum of the patience genre and how Christine de Pizan's Griselda-tale works as a precise satire of male understandings of patience literature and of knightly romances. The project then examines Margery Kempe's trials as examples of the displacement of feminine space into Margery's own version of a shrine. No-one has previously described the genre of patience literature, while this book, intended primarily for an academic audience, increases recognition of specific roles for women in the Middle Ages, consolidates a number of innovative research trends, and makes an important contribution to literary history.

ISBN: 9780230391871 (electronic bk.)

Source: 569939Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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English literature
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LC Class. No.: PR275.W6 / W38 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/92870902

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