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Christine de Pizan's Use of Irony in The City of Ladies

Author : Sylvia L. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan's Use of Irony in The City of Ladies written by Sylvia L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a critical examination of The City of Ladies. It is divided into three chapters: a short, historical background of fifteenth-century France; a contrast between the lives of Giovanni Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan with an explanation of de Pizan's irony and her agenda for it; and a close reading of the text. The first chapter creates a context for the hypothesis that literary misogyny gained a new audience with the growing middle class. The second chapter is intended to construct possible ideologies of Boccaccio and de Pizan and ends with an explanation of de Pizan's use of irony. The theory concerning literary misogyny is applied to a close reading of the text in the third chapter of the thesis, that concludes with the claim that the intended recipients for the lesson of de Pizan's irony are all women who are and will be reading from different ideologies and perhaps more naively than the aristocracy of the earlier fifteenth century.

The Treasure of the City of Ladies

Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961015
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Treasure of the City of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.

Debate of the Romance of the Rose

Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226670147
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Debate of the Romance of the Rose written by Christine de Pizan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365–1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan’s criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsibility of a writer or artist for the works he or she produces. In Debate of the “Romance of the Rose,” David Hult collects, along with the debate documents themselves, letters, sermons, and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from City of Ladies—her major defense of women and their rights—that give context to this debate. Here, Pizan’s supporters and detractors are heard alongside her own formidable, protofeminist voice. The resulting volume affords a rare look at the way people read and thought about literature in the period immediately preceding the era of print.

Christine de Pizan

Author : Angus J. Kennedy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855661020
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan written by Angus J. Kennedy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concept of Woman

Author : Prudence Allen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802833471
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concept of Woman by : Prudence Allen

Download or read book The Concept of Woman written by Prudence Allen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. This volume is the second in her study, in which she explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods.

Thinking Allegory Otherwise

Author : Brenda Machosky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763801
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Allegory Otherwise written by Brenda Machosky and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thinking Allegory Otherwise is a unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways." "Not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, the essays focus on a wide range of topics, including architecture, philosophy, theater, science, and law. Indeed, all language is allegorical. This collection proves the truth of this statement, but more importantly, it shows the consequences of it. To think allegory otherwise is to think otherwise-forcing us to rethink not only the idea of allegory itself, but also the law and its execution, the literality offigurative abstraction, and the figurations upon which even hard science depends." --Book Jacket.

Chaucer in context

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148242
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer in context written by S. H. Rigby and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the most written about works of English literature, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales still defy categorization, claims the author of this book. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the society of the day, or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.

The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings

Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624667317
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings written by Christine De Pizan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and the Lamentation on France’s Ills." —Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena College CONTENTS:IntroductionA Note on Translating the Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan: Her works, Her TimesSuggestions for Further ReadingFrom Christine's Vision (1405)The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1405)From The Book of the Body Politic (1404–1407)From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410)Index

The Mythographic Chaucer

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900476
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Mythographic Chaucer written by Jane Chance and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of the Mutability of Fortune

Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Mutability of Fortune written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years’ War, Christine’s lone but strong feminine voice could be heard defending women, expounding the highest ideals for good governance, and lamenting France’s troubled times alongside her own personal trials. In The Mutability of Fortune, Christine fuses world history with autobiography to demonstrate mankind’s subjugation to the ceaselessly changing, and often cruel, whims of Fortune. Now, for the first time, this poem is accessible to an English-speaking audience, further expanding our appreciation of this ground-breaking woman author and her extraordinary body of work.

Virtue and Venom

Author : Glenda McLeod
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472102068
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Virtue and Venom written by Glenda McLeod and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virtue and Venom 'traces a general history of ., . the catalog of women - focusing especially on ... the close of the Middle Ages' (1). McLeod defines catalogs of women as 'lists - sometimes found in other works, sometimes found alone - enumerating pagan and (sometimes) Christian heroines who jointly define a notion of femineity'. The assumption that the women included in catalogs 'define a notion of femineity, ' a term she uses to rid her book of the connotations of 'femininity', is central to McLeod's study. ...

Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532689004
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages written by Jane Chance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers.... An ambitious attempt to understand hat 'gender' and 'text' might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the woman writer and reader rather than through the more usual androcentric lens...[The] collection brings together for the first time in one place essays about a whole range of women writers from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and from places as distant as Spain and Sweden, as well as the more well-known French and English writers."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon College "Brings together, under three main categories, diverse methodologies from...some of the foremost scholars and interpreters of each type of material and approach." -Nadia Margolis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages--women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions--often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popular oral theater, and focused in their choice of genre on lyric, romance, and confessional autobiography. These essays analyze their texts and reconstruct a medieval feminine aesthetic that begins a rewriting of cultural and literary history. Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University. She has written or edited 13 books on Old and Middle English literature, mythology, medieval women, and modern medievalism, including Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177 (UPF, 1994), Woman as Hero in Old English Literature, the Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (UPF 1990), and Christine de Pizan, The Letter of Othea to Hector, Translated, with Introduction and Interpretive Essay. She is the editor of the Focus Library of Medieval Women.

The Case for Women in Medieval Culture

Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191589446
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Women in Medieval Culture written by Alcuin Blamires and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a case for women. But hitherto studies of profeminine attitudes in that periods culture have tended to concentrate on courtly literature or on female visionary writings or on attempts to transcend misogyny by major authors such as Christine de Pizan and Chaucer. This book sets out to demonstrate something different: that there existed from early in the Middle Ages a corpus of substantial traditions in defence of women, on which the more familiar authors drew, and that this corpus itself consolidated strands of profeminine thought that had been present as far back as the patristic literature of the fourth century. The Case for Women surveys extant writings formally defending women in the Middle Ages; breaks new ground by identifying a source for profeminine argument in biblical apocrypha; offers a series of explorations of the background and circulation of central arguments on behalf of women; and seeks to situate relevant texts by Christine de Pizan, Chaucer, Abelard, and Hrotsvitha in relation to these arguments. Topics covered range from the privileges of women, and pro-Eve polemic, to the social and moral strengths attributed to women, and to the powerful modelsfrequently disruptive of patriarchal complacencypresented by Old and New Testament women. The contribution made by these emphases (which are not to be confused with feminism in a modern sense) to medieval constructions of gender is throughout critically assessed, and the book concludes by asking how far defenders were controlled by, or able to query, assumptions about what was natural (and therefore imagined inflexible) in gender theory.

Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women

Author : Rosalind Brown-Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521537742
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women written by Rosalind Brown-Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. Arguing that Christine tailored her critique of misogyny according to the genre in which she was writing and the audience she was addressing, this study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes. Whilst Christine may not have been a radical in modern feminist terms, she was able to draw upon the cultural resources of her day in order to construct an intellectual authority for herself that challenged the prevailing orthodoxy of the day.

Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons

Author : P. Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230378633
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons written by P. Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-07-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the courtly heroine, the nun and the wife, are familiar but questionable images of constructed femininity. '...an intelligent, sensitive, fresh and close reading which focuses upon Chaucer's women ... unconventional and subtle' - John J.McGavin, Times Higher Education Supplement

Love's Labor

Author : Eva Feder Kittay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136640096
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Love's Labor written by Eva Feder Kittay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

Author : Mary D. Garrard
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142393
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe written by Mary D. Garrard and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she is celebrated by feminist critics and scholars. This book breaks new ground by placing Gentileschi in the context of women’s political history. Mary D. Garrard, noted Gentileschi scholar, shows that the artist most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti. She discusses recently discovered paintings, offers fresh perspectives on known works, and examines the artist anew in the context of feminist history. This beautifully illustrated book gives for the first time a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art.