Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century

di Sarah Spence (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

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.

• Autore: Sarah Spence
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 184 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 279 gr.
• EAN: 9780521024471

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