{"product_id":"medieval-womans-song-cross-cultural-approaches-hardback-9780812236248","title":"Medieval Woman's Song; Cross-Cultural Approaches (Hardback) 9780812236248","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedieval Woman's Song\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCross-Cultural Approaches\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne L. Klinck (Edited by), Ann Marie Rasmussen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812236248\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 October 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.618 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Klinck and Rasmussen are to be commended for bringing scholars from different languages and disciplines together to discuss a topic of interest to all-women's song. . . . The book will be a useful resource for scholars who want an overview of the period, its various languages, genres, and voices.\" (\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Will be of use to all students of medieval literature and feminist theory for its freshness, range, and exemplary use of interdisciplinary methods to illuminate and important part of the medieval literary tradition.\" (\u003ci\u003eComitatus\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A \"woman's song\" in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on the subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual candor, and apparent artlessness.\u003cbr\u003e The chapters in \u003ci\u003eMedieval Woman's Song\u003c\/i\u003e bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to examine how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct entities female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What is at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural and generic construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e -Anne L. Klinck\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Sappho and Her Daughters: Some Parallels Between Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song\u003cbr\u003e -Anne L. Klinck\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Ides geomrode giddum: The Old English Female Lament\u003cbr\u003e -Pat Belanoff\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Women's Performance of the Lyric Before 1500\u003cbr\u003e -Susan Boynton\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Ca no soe joglaresa: Women and Music in Medieval Spain's Three Cultures\u003cbr\u003e -Judith R. Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Feminine Voices in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo\u003cbr\u003e -Esther Corral\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Sewing like a Girl: Working Women in the chansons de toile\u003cbr\u003e -E. Jane Burns\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours\u003cbr\u003e -Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 The Conception of Female Roles in the Woman's Song of Reinmar and the Comtessa de Dia\u003cbr\u003e -Ingrid Kasten\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's Poetry\u003cbr\u003e -Ann Marie Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10 Ventriloquisms: When Maidens Speak in English Songs, c. 1300-1550Judith M. Bennett\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555707121944,"sku":"9780812236248","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/medieval-womans-song-cross-cultural-approaches-hardback-9780812236248","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}