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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226059846
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95707632
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Anonymous Marie De France
Author
R. Howard BLOCH
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
578g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
R. Howard BLOCH
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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