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Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century - Spence, Sarah
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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 ...

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Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521024471

Trade paperback

Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521572798

Hardcover