Figuring the Feminine 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.
Jill Ross offers new readings of medieval Hispanic texts (Latin,
Castilian, and Hebrew) including Prudentius' Peristephanon, Gonzalo
de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra SeAora, Shem Tov of CarriA3n's
Battle Between the Pen and the Scissors, 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. Figuring 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.
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