Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

Spence, Sarah

Cambridge University Press（2006/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521024471
• DDC分類 809.021

Full 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.

Contents

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.