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"To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."
- Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show 'Confessions of an Irish Rebel' 1984
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 Format: Hardcover, 244 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812236289
Release Date: Jan 11, 1999
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Obviously a part of the social fabric of Anglo-Saxon England, women are nevertheless accorded an obscure and slender role in the textual archive of masculine clerical culture. What can this record of patriarchy, Clare Lees and Gillian Overing ask, contribute to the history of women? Double Agents explores the meaning and implications of women's absence and presence in the partial history of Anglo-Saxon culture.
Rather than recovering the details of exceptional women's lives, Double Agents concerns itself with the formation of the cultural record itself, and with women's relation to its processes of production and reception. By revisiting many familiar issues within the scholarly tradition--orality and literacy, documentation and authenticity, sources and analogues--and by looking at some of the core authors of the period--Bede, Aldhelm, and Aelfric, who continue the intellectual traditions of the early Church fathers--Lees and Overing address woman's entry into the patristic symbolic, the order which authorizes the record itself.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction | 1 | | Difference Historicized | 3 | | Where Are Those Women? | 4 | | Believing Women: Self, Psyche, Body | 6 | | Representation and Referentiality | 9 | | A Feminist Patristics? | 10 | | 1 | Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild, and Cultural Procreation | 15 | | Engendering Originary Narratives | 17 | | The Genedered Paradigm of Cultural Production | 29 | | 2 | Orality, Femininity, and the Disappearing Trace in Early Anglo-Saxon England | 40 | | Paradigms of Absence in Anglo-Saxon Culture | 40 | | What's in a Name? | 45 | | Riddling and Renaming | 54 | | Chartered Territory | 62 | | 3 | Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England | 71 | | Women in Dispute | 72 | | What's in a Name, Indeed | 77 | | Present Voices, Absent Names | 83 | | What Matter What Name? | 89 | | Riddles of Literacy, Riddles of Signification | 92 | | The Lady Reads | 105 | | 4 | Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography | 110 | | Body Politics in Aldhelm's De virginitate | 111 | | Female Saints, Female Subjects? | 125 | | Seeing Women: Mary of Egypt | 132 | | 5 | Pressing Hard on the "Breasts" of Scripture: Metaphor and the Symbolic | 152 | | When Is a Woman Not a Woman? | 154 | | Cognition and Containment | 163 | | Relics: Dead Bodies, Living Metaphors | 167 | | Over Her Dead Body | 171 | | Abbreviations | 173 | | Notes | 175 | | Bibliography | 219 | | Index | 235 |
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