Virgin, Muse, Heroine
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788842207429 |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788842207429 |
Author | : Virgin muse |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1722 |
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Author | : Virginia Cox |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421401606 |
Winner, 2012 Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenHonorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy—who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women’s literary output. A widespread critical notion sees Italian women’s writing as a phenomenon specific to the peculiar literary environment of the mid-sixteenth century, and most scholars assume that a reactionary movement such as the Counter-Reformation was unlikely to spur its development. Cox argues otherwise, showing that women’s writing flourished in the period following 1560, reaching beyond the customary "feminine" genres of lyric, poetry, and letters to experiment with pastoral drama, chivalric romance, tragedy, and epic. There were few widely practiced genres in this eclectic phase of Italian literature to which women did not turn their hand. Organized by genre, and including translations of all excerpts from primary texts, this comprehensive and engaging volume provides students and scholars with an invaluable resource as interest in these exceptional writers grows. In addition to familiar, secular works by authors such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Lucrezia Marinella, Cox also discusses important writings that have largely escaped critical interest, including Fonte’s and Marinella’s vivid religious narratives, an unfinished Amazonian epic by Maddalena Salvetti, and the startlingly fresh autobiographical lyrics of Francesca Turina Bufalini. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.
Author | : Sarah Parker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317319990 |
Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Epistolary poetry, Latin |
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Release | : 1722 |
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Author | : Karen A. Winstead |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501711571 |
Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still the most popular female saints. Their legends, in countless retellings through the centuries, preserved a standard plot—the heroine resists a pagan suitor, endures cruelties inflicted by her rejected lover or outraged family, works miracles, and dies for Christ. That sequence was embellished by incidents emblematic of the specific saint: Juliana's battle with the devil, Barbara's immurement in the tower, Katherine's encounter with spiked wheels. Karen A. Winstead examines this seemingly static story form and discovers subtle shifts in the representation of the virgin martyrs, as their legends were adapted for changing audiences in late medieval England.
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Mythology, Classical |
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Author | : Foteini Lika |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
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ISBN | : 1527518329 |
Using diverse sources ranging from hagiographies and historiographies to historical novels and satirical poems, this is the first book-length examination of Emmanouil Roidis’ Pope Joan (1866). Providing a long-overdue and authoritative introduction to the sinuous poetics of one of the most celebrated Modern Greek novels, Roidis and the Borrowed Muse takes in a broad gamut of British writers, from Swift, Sterne and Gibbon to Scott, Macaulay and Byron, and casts a fresh and original eye on the intertextual connections between their work and Roidis’ magnum opus. This comprehensive comparative study will appeal not only to intellectual historians, literary critics and students, but also to scholars of Romanticism and readers interested in the many facets of satire.
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1873 |
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