Franco : Famous Courtesans Of The Early Modern Period

To illustrate Rhetorical Man, I present Gloria Anzaldúa. She is the kind of figure which I strongly believe fits to the definition of a Rhetorical

In Spain and the Spanish colonies in South America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, gender roles were distinct and the opportunity gap was enormous. Catalina de Erauso compares the two roles through her memoir, “Lieutenant Nun,” where she recounts her life as a transvestite in both the new and old world. Through having experienced the structured life of a woman as well as the freedom involved in being a man, de Erauso formed an identity for herself that crossed the boundaries of both genders. Catalina de Erauso’s life demonstrates the gap in freedom and opportunity for women, as compared to men, in the areas of culture, politics and economy, and religion.

Baldassare Castiglione 's massively popular novel, The Book of the Courtier, shook the European literary world when it was first published in 1528. His work created a guidebook for courtly mannerisms and values. Though The Courtier offers viewpoints on everything from politics, gender roles, and fashion, Jacob Buckhardt, author of "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy", claims that "the true subject of The Book of the Courtier is the perfection of noblemen at court" (qtd. in Epstein). Though this was possibly one of the subjects that Castiglione originally intended for the book, courts are now obsolete. How is one supposed to relate to a centuries-old text concerning something that no longer

Catalina de Erauso’s memoir, Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, depicts gender relations in the early 17th century Spain. Erauso, through her detailed narrative of personal encounters with transvestism, reveals significant implications of the roles and expectations of the gender binary during this era. Her memoir evidently portrays gender binaries in dress, emotion, and interaction within society as she describes aspects of her journey from the perspective of both a woman and man. The male gender exhibits idealized masculine qualities, such as being violent and spontaneous, and the female gender exhibits idealized feminine qualities, such as emotional suppression and tranquility. Erauso expresses the distinct

Gloria Anzaldua’s employs several rhetorical modes to get across to her audience in her essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. I personally noticed modes of narration, description, classification and comparison and contrast.

Rhetorical choices can be made by a writer to perused readers of their point. They help the reader gain a better understanding of the argument, as well as add passion to the words. In his piece in a religious magazine, Cesar Chavez uses rhetorical devises to strengthen his argument advocating nonviolence in a religious magazine. Chavez uses rhetorical devises to form a persuasive writing style and appeal to the reader’s conscience and sense of reason in order to promote nonviolent resistance.

Cisneros was born in 1954 and grew up as an only girl in a family of six brothers. In Dianne Klein’s “Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros”, Cisneros states along with growing up as the only girl around boys, she had no women-author role models to look up to as a child. Klein argues, in regards to Cisneros’s childhood, “…she felt impoverished with nothing of personal merit to say” (21). Along

From the beginning Julia sought to press the boundaries of both accepted speech as well as the which was considered appropriate for women, and effort that led her to explore and incorporate in her texts previously ignored setting and experiences and to create precarious, conflicted identities.(The Unfolding of Self Poetry of Julia de Burgos) Julia from the start had a driving force that was not going to be stopped by the norms of society, she had a mission to show the world her true identity and the hardships that she experienced.

During the medieval times, Marie de France, unlike the male writers of her time, wrote courtly stories that depicted women who were predominantly featured in the primary roles with empathy and questioned the sexist predicaments women were often subjected to. Women often times struggled to find their voice, but her stories told the perseverance and progress within those constraints. Instead, she wrote of men idealizing wealthy, powerful, independent, beautiful women. She inserts the thoughts and feelings from a woman’s perspective. In a sense, giving women the voice they strived to have heard in a male dominated time period. As Damon stated in the article “Marie de France: Psychologist of Courtly Love,” “Contemporary readers might have noted that the characters departed occasionally from the established laws of courtly conduct; none the less, as all such departures were towards reality, they were welcomed.” She opened the door for women’s self-expression and individual achievement. Marie de France’s popular adulterous love stories bring about many fascinating ethical questions.

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Another aspects that Teresa was able to be influential around Early Spain was her male supporters throughout her life. While Teresa had followed male authorities, she had also male followers and supporters throughout her life, such as her editor for her first book, Juan de Ribera and Luis de Leon, and bishops around Avila. Her editors were prepared to justify Teresa’s writing and mystical experiences to the Spanish audience. Teresa had struggle with the dismal misogyny of her days has poignancy because both by conditioning and temperament she experienced a great need for male appreciation to get what she need to accomplished. For example, when Teresa wanted to set up a convent in Avila and needed to buy a property, but woman were not allowed

Lope de Vega’s play touches upon several key components and ideas that were brought up in many of the other stories read throughout the semester. This included the role of gender and how men and women are viewed differently in the Spaniard town of Fuenteovejuna. Another topic included the importance of family, love, and relationships and their connection on loyalty, trust, and personal beliefs. The last major influence found in other literature and in Fuenteovejuna, were the political and religious references made throughout the play. Even though Lope de Vega didn’t make these views obvious, the reader could still pick up on their connotation and the references made towards these specific ideas. With all of this in mind, each of these

Marie de France lived in a time when social graces were paramount to a good reputation, lordships and to securing good marriages. A woman was considered less valuable if she lost her virginity; a wife was subjected to her feudal lord, father, brother or son after her husband’s death. According to Angela Sandison’s article “The Role of Women in the Middle Ages”, this was because in the Middle Ages the Church and the aristocracy controlled public opinion and the legal system. These authorities of the times believed a woman’s place was in a submissive role to a man. In The Lay of the Nightingale, we will see how this social and religious hierarchy will impact the behaviors of the three people involved.

Therefore, it is evident that literary techniques are utilised to exploit the Beauvoirian idea of women “denying [their] feminine weakness” in order to justify their strength, while the “militant male... she wish[es] to be” however, Marlene accepts femininity and only wears a skirt to work.

"Sor Juana's Rhetoric of Silence." Rhetoric Review 25.1 (2006): 5-21. JSTOR. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. [This literary analysis focuses on Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, applying silence on history and the theory of rhetoric. Bokser examines silence as a rhetoric, but instead of using the theory, she employs Sor Juana’s prose pieces. It is also claimed that silence demands to be listened, given that it is omnipotent and always subtly present even though rhetors often underestimate its power. As a conclusion, Bokser establishes that, Sor Juana theorizes about silence as a persuasive entity, and provides an early instance of a nondominant