
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century
Sarah Spence(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 12. December 1996
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-521-57279-8 (ISBN)
Description
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into existence without both the gap between Latinity and the vernacular and a shift in perspective towards a visual and spatial orientation. This results in a self which is not an agent that will act on the outside world like the Renaissance self, but, rather, one which inhabits a potential, middle ground, or 'space of agency', explained here partly in terms of object-relations theory.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-57279-8 (9780521572798)
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Content
Acknowledgements; 1. Corpus, body, text (and self); 2. Writing out the body: Abbot Suger, De administratione; 3. Text of the body: Abelard and Guibert de Nogent; 4. Text of the self: Guilhem IX and Jaufre Rudel, Bernart de Vantadorn, Raimbaut d'Aurenga; 5. Writing in the vernacular: the Lais of Marie de France; 6. Conclusion; Works cited; Index.