The Allegory of Female Authority
Title | The Allegory of Female Authority PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Quilligan |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 150172956X |
The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorical poem that revises masculine traditions, it asserts and defends the authority of women in general and of its author in particular. In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cité.
Thinking Allegory Otherwise
Title | Thinking Allegory Otherwise PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Machosky |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0804763801 |
"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.
Showing Like a Queen
Title | Showing Like a Queen PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Eggert |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2015-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0812292618 |
For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority. In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as an occasion to experiment with new literary genres. Unlike other critics who have argued that a queen provoked only anxiety and defensiveness in her male subjects, Eggert demonstrates that even after her death Elizabeth I's forty-five-year reign enabled writers to entertain the fantasy of a counterpatriarchal realm. Eggert traces a literary history of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in which the destabilizing anomaly of female rule enables Spenser to reshape the genre of epic romance and gives Shakespeare scope to create the ruptured dynastic epic of the history plays, the psychologized tragedy of Hamlet, and the feminized tragedies of "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Winter's Tale." Turning to the second half of the seventeenth century, Eggert reveals how even after more than sixty years of male governance, Milton bases his marital epic Paradise Lost upon the formulae of queenship.
Allegorical Bodies
Title | Allegorical Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Daisy Delogu |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442622814 |
Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380–1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu’s book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.
Christine de Pizan : Texts/intertexts/contexts
Title | Christine de Pizan : Texts/intertexts/contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Marilynn Desmond |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780816630806 |
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.
The Language of Allegory
Title | The Language of Allegory PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Quilligan |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801480515 |
"The Language of Allegory examines a body of literature not often treated as a unified genre. Reading a number of texts that are traditionally characterized as allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan identifies the distinctive generic elements they share. Originally published in 1979, this highly regarded work by a well-known feminist critic and theorist is now available in paperback."--Back book cover
Monuments & Maidens
Title | Monuments & Maidens PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Warner |
Publisher | Picador |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Art |
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