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Author : Daisy Delogu
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Book Synopsis Allegorical Bodies by : Daisy Delogu
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Author : Daisy Delogu
Release : 2015-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Allegorical Bodies by : Daisy Delogu
Download or read book Allegorical Bodies written by Daisy Delogu. This book was released on 2015-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380–1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu’s book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.
Author : Erin M. Goss
Release : 2012-10-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Revealing Bodies by : Erin M. Goss
Download or read book Revealing Bodies written by Erin M. Goss. This book was released on 2012-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together, in order to ask a question: how is it that we claim to know the body? This book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation.
Author : Hendro Wiyanto
Release : 2008
Genre : Artists -- Indonesia -- Exhibitions
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Book Synopsis Allegorical Bodies by : Hendro Wiyanto
Download or read book Allegorical Bodies written by Hendro Wiyanto. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Masha Raskolnikov
Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Body Against Soul by : Masha Raskolnikov
Download or read book Body Against Soul written by Masha Raskolnikov. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval allegory, Body and Soul were often pitted against one another in debate. In Body Against Soul: Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory, Masha Raskolnikov argues that such debates function as a mode of thinking about psychology, gender, and power in the Middle Ages. Neither theological nor medical in nature, works of sowlehele (“soul-heal”) described the self to itself in everyday language—moderns might call this kind of writing “self-help.” Bringing together contemporary feminist and queer theory along with medieval psychological thought, Body Against Soul examines Piers Plowman, the “Katherine Group,” and the history of psychological allegory and debate. In so doing, it rewrites the history of the Body to include its recently neglected fellow, the Soul. The topic of this book is one that runs through all of Western history and remains of primary interest to modern theorists—how “my” body relates to “me.” In the allegorical tradition traced by this study, a male person could imagine himself as a being populated by female personifications, because Latin and Romance languages tended to gender abstract nouns as female. However, since Middle English had ceased to inflect abstract nouns as male or female, writers were free to gender abstractions like “Will” or “Reason” any way they liked. This permitted some psychological allegories to avoid the representational tension caused by placing a female soul inside a male body, instead creating surprisingly queer same-sex inner worlds. The didactic intent driving sowlehele is, it turns out, complicated by the erotics of the struggle to establish a hierarchy of the self's inner powers.
