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She Speaks for the Trees; Exegetical Ecofeminism From Medieval French Forests
She Speaks for the Trees; Exegetical Ecofeminism From Medieval French Forests
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105634
- ISBN
- 9798297962422
- DDC
- 634.9
- 서명/저자
- She Speaks for the Trees; Exegetical Ecofeminism From Medieval French Forests
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Ohio State University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 286 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Heller, Sarah-Grace.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation examines how female characters in medieval French literature from the twelfth to the fourteenth century represent different forms of environmental critique. Through a methodology I term "exegetical ecofeminism," the project combines medieval biblical exegesis with modern ecofeminist theory, drawing specifically on the frameworks established by Val Plumwood and Karen Warren. Their work provides the critical foundation for analyzing how medieval texts construct gender relationships to landscape and challenge patriarchal systems of misogyny and environmental domination. Ecofeminist scholarship has become increasingly visible in studies of medieval English literature, yet it remains under studied in medieval French literary criticism. This project addresses that lacuna by focusing on vernacular texts where natural spaces such as forests function as a vital terrain shaped by literal and symbolic meaning, gendered power and material necessity. Female characters inhabiting, emerging from, or symbolically represented by the forest occupy liminal positions in both medieval society and its literary representations. However, their association with natural settings facilitates resistance to the structures of courtly authority, enabling alternative expressions of knowledge, autonomy, and social interaction.By examining works such as Marie de France's lais, Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian romances, and the Roman de Silence, I analyze how characters like the fee, grieving mothers and allegorical personifications of nature used retreat, concealment or refusal to disrupt systems of feudal inheritance, chivalric performance and theological authority. Their actions highlight and critique anthropocentric and patriarchal paradigms. I also read these literary gestures alongside the material conditions of the medieval period, including subsistence economies, seasonal vulnerability, and dependence on the environment, showing how ecological pressures shaped and were shaped by gendered experience.Ultimately, this dissertation argues that medieval French literature encodes subtle critiques of environmental and gender domination through the embodied presence of female characters in forest spaces. Exegetical ecofeminism offers a method for interpreting these texts that foregrounds the ethical and political implications of human and nonhuman relationships. In centering figures who resist domination and assert relational models of being, these narratives offer a premodern model and environmental consciousness that remains urgent in the context of contemporary ecological crisis.
- 일반주제명
- Forestry
- 일반주제명
- Medieval literature
- 일반주제명
- Gender studies
- 일반주제명
- European history
- 일반주제명
- Medieval history
- 키워드
- Old French
- 키워드
- Medieval period
- 키워드
- Ecofeminism
- 키워드
- Marie de France
- 기타저자
- The Ohio State University French and Italian
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■650 4▼aMedieval literature
■650 4▼aGender studies
■650 4▼aEuropean history
■650 4▼aMedieval history
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■653 ▼aMedieval period
■653 ▼aEcofeminism
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