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... French literature — To 1500— History and criticism . 4. Literature , Medieval — History and criticism . 5. Dido ( Legendary character ) in literature . 6. Carthage ( Extinct city ) —In litera- ture . 7. Literature , Medieval — Roman ...
... French literature — To 1500— History and criticism . 4. Literature , Medieval — History and criticism . 5. Dido ( Legendary character ) in literature . 6. Carthage ( Extinct city ) —In litera- ture . 7. Literature , Medieval — Roman ...
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... French and English literature ( Berkeley , 1985 ) . In the course of writing my dissertation , my research on the vernacular reception of the Aeneid brought me back again and again to Dido and to Aeneid 4. However , it was not until I ...
... French and English literature ( Berkeley , 1985 ) . In the course of writing my dissertation , my research on the vernacular reception of the Aeneid brought me back again and again to Dido and to Aeneid 4. However , it was not until I ...
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... French - Algerian Jewish woman reading Dido — might evoke a series of other stories that Cixous does not specifically allude to in La jeune née . Readers such as Cixous might also recognize in the texture of Virgil's Aeneid a palimpsest ...
... French - Algerian Jewish woman reading Dido — might evoke a series of other stories that Cixous does not specifically allude to in La jeune née . Readers such as Cixous might also recognize in the texture of Virgil's Aeneid a palimpsest ...
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... French colonial city of Tunis . As a Jewish schoolgirl in a North African French colony , Cixous is introduced to a canonical version of Dido's story that works to erase the status and agency of Dido as the founder of Carthage , since ...
... French colonial city of Tunis . As a Jewish schoolgirl in a North African French colony , Cixous is introduced to a canonical version of Dido's story that works to erase the status and agency of Dido as the founder of Carthage , since ...
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... French and English texts . Although the arrangement of these chapters suggests a chronological approach — chapter 3 focuses on the twelfth century , chapter 4 the fourteenth , and chapters 5 and 6 the fifteenth and early sixteenth ...
... French and English texts . Although the arrangement of these chapters suggests a chronological approach — chapter 3 focuses on the twelfth century , chapter 4 the fourteenth , and chapters 5 and 6 the fifteenth and early sixteenth ...
Contents
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Dido as Libido From Augustine to Dante | 74 |
Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History | 99 |
Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze | 128 |
Didos Double Wound in Caxtons Eneydos and Gavin Douglass Eneados | 163 |
Christine de Pizans Feminist Self Fashioning and the Invention of Dido | 195 |
On Reading Dido | 225 |
Notes | 229 |
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Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid Marilynn Desmond No preview available - 1994 |
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Aeneas Aeneas-Dido Aeneas's Aeneid story allegory Augustine Augustine's authority Bernard Bernard Silvestris Boccaccio's body Carthage cave scene Caxton century chastity Chaucer Christine de Pizan Christine's Cité des dames claris mulieribus classical cleres femmes commentary construction context Creusa cultural Dante depicts desire Dido and Aeneas Dido's story Dido's suicide discourse discussion Douglas Douglas's dreamer ekphrasis emphasizes Eneados Eneas exemplum explicitly female feminist figure French Gavin Douglas Geffrey gender glosses Heroides Histoire ancienne jusqu'à historical Dido homosocial House of Fame Hundred Years War interpretive intertextual John of Salisbury Latin texts Legend of Dido literary male manuscript marriage masculine medieval Middle Ages misogyny Mutacion narrative narrator Nonetheless Ovid Ovid's Dido Ovid's Heroides poem poetic poetry political prologue reader reading Dido Renaissance rhetorical role Roman d'Eneas sexual social textual tion tradition translation Venus version of Dido's Virgil's Aeneid Virgil's Dido Virgil's text Virgilian Dido visual William Caxton woman women
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Page 15 - When the constructed status of gender is theorized as radically independent of sex, gender itself becomes a free-floating artifice, with the consequence that man and masculine might just as easily signify a female body as a male one, and woman and feminine a male body as easily as a female one.
Page 8 - As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught to think as men, to identify with a male point of view, and to accept as normal and legitimate a male system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny...
Page 14 - Aeneas, magalia quondam, miratur portas strepitumque et strata viarum. instant ardentes Tyrii: pars ducere muros molirique arcem et manibus subvolvere saxa, pars optare locum tecto et concludere sulco; iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum. hie portus alii effodiunt; hie alta theatris fundamenta locant alii, imanisque columnas rupibus excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris.
Page 28 - Deveniunt. Prima et Tellus et pronuba luno Dant signum : fulsere ignes, et conscius aether Conubiis, summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae.
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Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages Laurel Amtower No preview available - 2000 |