| Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference: Volume 14 Contributor(s): Desmond, Marilynn (Author) |
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ISBN: 081663081X ISBN-13: 9780816630813 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: Christine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in the early 15th century, composed lyric poetry, debate poetry, political biography, and allegory. Her texts constantly negotiate the hierarchical and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. How they do so is the focus of this volume, which places Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity, and categories of difference. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 841.2 |
| LCCN: 97-44280 |
| Series: Medieval Cultures (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.82" W x 8.85" (0.90 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Establishes the place of this medieval writer within considerations of "difference". Christine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in the early fifteenth century, composed lyric poetry, debate poetry, political biography, and allegory. At times complicit, at times subversive, at times revisionary, her texts constantly negotiate the hierarchical and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. How they do so is the focus of this volume, which places Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity, and categories of difference. Here, contributors from the fields of history, literature, legal theory, art history, and medieval studies offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the Christine corpus. |