The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography : Speaking the Saint
- Author / Editor
- Ashton, Gail.
The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography : Speaking the Saint
- Published
- London and New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Physical Description
- viii, 176 pp.
- Series
- Routledge Research in Medieval Studies, no. 1.
- Description
- Analyzes the voices in medieval vernacular saints' lives: the controlling masculine voice and the submerged and subversive feminine voice. Defines female hagiography as a genre separable from male hagiography. French feminist critics (Cixous and Irigaray), however, help reveal tensions and fissures within the genre, evident in how the texts speak through silences, the presence of the feminine body, and the expression of these bodies. Includes discussion of MLT, ClT, and SNT, among other saints' lives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.