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Record Number:
8056
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Jewers , Caroline.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Reading and Righting: Issues of Value and Gender in Early Women Poets
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 10, 1 (Spring 1998): Pages 97 - 121.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Dia, Countess of, Trobairitz
Literature- History and Criticism
Literature- Verse
Love in Literature
Poets
Trobairitz
Women Authors
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
12
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Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
This study analyzes the concept of value in the lyric poems of the Comtessa de Dia, one of the best known "trobairitz" of medieval Occitania. It argues, through closereading of the language of her cansos, that she encodes a network of imagery pertaining to her sense of her own value in her poems, and by extension explores the status ofwoman as desiring subject within a lyric system of courtly love that problematized that position. Jewers frames her discussion by looking at how critics too havesometimes fallen into a gender-biased and political trap when assessing women's lyric poetry, and established systems of value that have underprivileged our assessment ofsuch works. She compares their fortunes to those of women artists. Other poets and performers mentioned include Corinna, Sulpicia, and the Gorilla Girls. [Abstractsubmitted by the author to the Medieval Feminist Index.]
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1998.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
10412573