The Anonymous Marie de France - Hardcover

Bloch, R. Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226059685 ISBN 13: 9780226059686

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2003

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x 367p hardback with fresh dustjacket, this copy has been very closely and carefully studied for review purposes, with marginal pencil lines to many pages, notes for review inserted on college notepaper, reviewed and useful copy

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"After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

Reseña del editor:

"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous "Lais", her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, "Saint Patrick's Purgatory". Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of her time - a writer whose works reveal an acute awareness not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but also of the transformative psychological, social, and political effects of her writing within an oral tradition. "The Anonymous Marie de France" recovers the central achievements of one of the most pivotal figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0226059685
• ISBN 13: 9780226059686
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384