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Troubled Vision
Campbell E Mills R
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Description for Troubled Vision
Hardcover. Editor(s): Mills, Robert; Campbell, Emma. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of ... Read more
Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Series
New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403963437
SKU
V9781403963437
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About Campbell E Mills R
EMMA CAMPBELL is a specialist on Old French literature. She has published articles in French Studies and Comparative Literature and is currently completing a doctoral thesis on Old French saints' lives at King's College London. She was winner of the Gapper prize 2002 for the best essay in postgraduate French studies in the British Isles. ROBERT MILLS is a ... Read more
Reviews for Troubled Vision
"A stimulating and engaging way to consider how vision is deployed - whether as privileged mediator or as deceptive medium - in the construction (and deconstruction) of gender categories." - The Medieval Review "In Troubled Vision (and particularly in part two, "Troubled Looks," which is in many ways the heart of the volume), Campbell and Mills have ... Read more