de Weever Sheba's Daughters

Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-82670-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of the Latin West and will be of consuming interest to students in women's studies, cultural studies, and medieval literature.The texts considered are written in the major European languages of the time and range from the Song of Songs through Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova to such epics and romances as Erec et Enide,Doon de Maience, Fierabras, La Prise d'Orange, Ars Versificatoria, The Sowdone of Babylone, and Parzifal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Weever, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter One: Whitening the Saracen: the Erasure of Alterity * Chapter Two: Demonizing the Saracen: the Inscription of the Monstrous Other * Chapter Three: Subversions of Treachery and the Beautiful Easterner * Chapter Four: Paradox and the Discourse of Protest * Chapter Five: Conclusion * Appendix: Portraits and Translations * Bibliography * Index