Gendering Politics – The Female Authorial Voice of Anna Komnene
Gendering Politics – The Female Authorial Voice of Anna Komnene

Summary/Abstract: Through perspective of a feminist narratology, I have tried to answer some crucial questions on the issue of unique medieval woman’s text and its distinctive mode of enunciation. Feminist criticism seeks to reassess the modern narratological theories in term of gender, social and power relations. The main issues that concern feminist narratologists are voice, context and narrative level of a specific women’s text wherefore I have chosen to deal with this pivotal narratological elements in relation to Anna Komnene’s Alexiad. My final aim was to present in which way Anna conducted a peculiar ‘genderization’ of her narrative and how these crucial elements were shaped and moulded according to the authoress’ gender and her gender-related views and interests.

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