Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 30) - Softcover

Spence, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521024471 ISBN 13: 9780521024471

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book analyzes key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts that articulate a subjective autobiographical stance. The reader is led into a complex maze of paths, through intellectually daunting issues such as the relation of subject to object, self to body, body to text and text to language. The contention is that the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into existence without the gap between Latinity and the vernacular and the shift in perspective in the twelfth century toward a visual and spatial orientation.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521024471
• ISBN 13: 9780521024471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184