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An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song

By Anne L. Klinck

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1403963096, 9781403963093, 9781403979568
LCC
PN6101 .A49 2004
Open Library ID
OL3689758M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
830 kB (850252 bytes)
Pages
208\213
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This collection focuses on a woman's point of view in love poetry, and juxtaposes poems by women and poems about women to raise questions about how femininity is constructed. Although most medieval "woman's songs" are either anonymous or male-authored lyrics in a popular style, the term can usefully be expanded to cover poetry composed by women, and poetry that is aristocratic or learned rather than popular. Poetry from ancient Greece and Rome that resonates with the medieval poems is also included here. Readers will find a range of voices, often echoing similar themes, as women rejoice or lament, praise or condemn, plead or curse, speak in jest or in earnest, to men and to each other, about love.

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