Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
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Julian of Norwich
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Standard Name: Julian of Norwich
Self-constructed Name: Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich
was a religious visionary whose experiences of the divine came to her in the later fourteenth century. She was also something that no Englishwoman had been before her: the author of a treatise offering spiritual guidance to others which achieved wide currency.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Jamie | Julian of Norwich voices a sense of enclosure, frustration, praying in vain; but the final stanza (beginning And yet, and yet) Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books. 50 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Holland | Dorothy L. Latz
notes that CH
reflects no influence of the Jansenism
which was current during her lifetime. Her theology stresses the incarnational, the divine immanence within human nature. Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg. 26 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
| Reception | Lady Lucy Herbert | Dorothy L Latz
, observing how LLH
attributes maternal love to God (he is not content to call himself and to be our Father, but because a Mother's love is more tender, he compares... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | The comic, biting satire of the early chapters modulates into a thriller or adventure story as Vanessa pursues her dream of a safari among gorillas close to the dangerous Congo border. (Modern communications dominate this... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer noted in Travelling In a host of quotations from old and new sources: from studies in Zen Buddhism
, the Tao te Ching, the Theologica Germanica, and Julian of Norwich |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | Many of these poems trace patterns in their author's life; others engage with Christian women of earlier times. MF
asks of Julian of Norwich
: Be with us still, who bear our cells so badly... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | MF
images these women, active between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries, as a wave, slow and tentative at first, rising to a crescendo with Julian of Norwich
, the one who speaks most clearly... |
| Textual Production | Monica Furlong | The second was The Wisdom of Julian of Norwich, a compilation from Julian
's Revelations of Divine Love (written from February 1393). This appeared in a series, Visionary Women, of which MF
was general editor. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Cary | Anne Cary (Dame Clementina in religion)
, was a writer like her sister LC
, in devotional modes. She compiled instructions for mental prayer and for Divine Office, and devotions from Dom Augustine Baker
... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Atwood | The story focuses on three women: Toby (who loses her loving, low-ranking parents to the system, survives sexual violence, and becomes a not wholly believing member of a sect of ecologists or nature-worshippers calling themselves... |
| Birth | Anna Livia | Her parents named her after Anna Livia Plurabelle of Joyce
's Finnegans Wake, and after Julian of Norwich
, medieval anchoress and author of Revelations of Divine Love. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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