Search Results for feminist formalism

... history, Estiennot and Neville are read through the lens of feminist formalism. A Maurist and antiquarian, Estiennot wrote a chronicle of the Congregation of the English Benedictine Dames that exemplifies the professional revolution in historiography. Neville, in contrast, cultivated the humbler position...

.... Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies . Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 304 pp., 6 illus. Hardcover, ebook. Heffernan, Megan. Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book...

... of literary analysis that interests her, informed by feminist theory and the “New Formalism” in literary analysis, has much to learn from microhistory.5 We welcome her contribution for many reasons, but not least because it represents a feature of microhistory’s new frontiers often overlooked: how...

... assumed. In addition, I show that temporal utopia emerges as an effect of a woman’s attempt to imagine utopia as an alternative to existing generic — and social — options. Unfolding in the voice of a female persona, Whitney’s “Wyll,” with a radically feminist gesture, inaugurates a temporal utopia...

... performative force allows us to refine and develop further the strong thesis of feminist historians Christina Larner, Marianne Hester, and Anne Barstow that witch-hunts were women- hunts, “sexual violence against women within a context of male supremacist social relations.” The important ideological...

... for the feminist recovery project, which has sought empirical evidence of female authorship, Smith challenges literary historians to embrace such articulations of the female voice as opening up new spaces for poetic iden- tity. She argues that these poems were circulated and received as fictions of women s...

... illness with readers when he believes its physical symptoms resist communication? This essay argues that Donne bypasses this impasse by formally recreating one of his illness's contemplative symptoms: the vexed temporal disorder caused by interpreting one's world from within a sick body. Because...

... constitute meaning and identity. At once simple and revolutionary, the exhortation to study performance as performance, rather than through interpretive practices born of formalism and literary theory, has had far-reaching implications. On the one hand, performance studies encourages a consideration...

... by a mostly female group of pious Laudian gentry. Their views, defended with considerable argumentative verve, turn out to defy expectation on every front. The Story Books represent a major (and largely unknown) body of early modern women's writing, one that challenges the received pictures of feminists...

... they also represent a genre of life narrative that profits from the insights of literary and feminist theory. This essay reads the rich harvest of fifteenth-century Burgundian pardon letters as collaboratively authored textual performances as it explores the relationship of these micronarratives...

... something from the inside out. It was very different from a description of pregnancy and birth in medical treatises, which alienate a personal experi- ence from the birth of the child itself. Robisheaux: Have you found feminist theories and the new formalism useful to you in your work as allied...

... elites sought from the king their own parlement in order to insure local privileges and powers. The authority to challenge formally the edicts of the king and obtain concessions was theo- retically available to those localities that enjoyed their own parlement. Humanists in the provinces deployed...

... experiences about which we must to a certain extent remain uncertain, the question for us, as medievalists, is: Should our ability and wish to demystify convincingly medieval discourses that we find in some respects antipathetic—for example, because we are atheists, feminists, or gay while the discourses...

... and formal textual analysis, the essay zooms in on the trope of the womb across the theological divide separating these plays. It argues that these representations demonstrate a consistent and ambivalent connection between the mind and womb, a connection that does not subordinate one part of the body...

.... 192 pp., 7 illus. Hardcover, ebook. [Essays on the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.] Norris, Robin, Rebecca Stephenson, and Renée R. Trilling. Feminist...

... the problematic consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women in premodern England.6 Many feminists take pride in the mantra derived from Judith But- ler, “gender is performative,” for its power to deflate cultural or biological determinism.7 And although Butler cautioned...

.... Medieval Texts in Translation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xxxvi, 84 pp. $37.95, paper $17.95. Poullain de la Barre, François. Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises . Intro- duced and annotated by Marcelle Maistre Welch. Translated by Vivien Bosley. The Other Voice...

...” those same poems because they recognize them as acts of contrition (9–16).16 With this much established it should be noted that Browne’s response to Donne’s book is unusual, at least in its immediate literary setting amongst the other elegies of the 1633 collection. It bears no formal resem...

... of the historical Chaucer had shifted in one small but crucial instance—and the discovery was immediately followed by questions about the way we might now read and interpret Chaucer's works. In particular, the consequences of the newly found records for feminist criticism of Chaucer have been discussed prominently...

... and colliers), 349–50 (bricklayers). 63 See the discussion of Sir Richard Newdigate’s rental policy on the Arbury estate, in Hindle, 358–62. 64 The term was first coined by Marx and refined by Bourdieu, but it has become particularly associated with those feminists who emphasize the (often...