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... Latin exercised in formal education combined with the structure of society in the West up until the past few generations to give the language its strangest characteristic . It was a sexually specialized language , used almost ...
... Latin exercised in formal education combined with the structure of society in the West up until the past few generations to give the language its strangest characteristic . It was a sexually specialized language , used almost ...
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... Latin texts in medieval cul- tures , the medieval Dido repeatedly signals her status as a classical liter- ary figure recuperated by the later medieval reader who rewrites the past . Dido and her shadow — her existence in earlier pagan ...
... Latin texts in medieval cul- tures , the medieval Dido repeatedly signals her status as a classical liter- ary figure recuperated by the later medieval reader who rewrites the past . Dido and her shadow — her existence in earlier pagan ...
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... Latin primer.15 The Latin hexameter of Virgil's text has been an acquired , even artificial , language for more than a millennium , 16 and since the Middle Ages , the reading of the Aeneid has been associated with the study of Latin ...
... Latin primer.15 The Latin hexameter of Virgil's text has been an acquired , even artificial , language for more than a millennium , 16 and since the Middle Ages , the reading of the Aeneid has been associated with the study of Latin ...
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... Latin and read Virgil . " 22 And in To the Lighthouse , Mr. Carmichael is characterized by the fact that he " liked to lie awake a little reading Virgil , [ he ] kept his candle burning rather longer than the rest . ' 1123 As Woolf ...
... Latin and read Virgil . " 22 And in To the Lighthouse , Mr. Carmichael is characterized by the fact that he " liked to lie awake a little reading Virgil , [ he ] kept his candle burning rather longer than the rest . ' 1123 As Woolf ...
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... positions . Not only have readers of Virgil historically been men , but the reading of the Aeneid — as part of Latin training — has been associated with a class - specific performance of masculinity . As a school 7 Introduction.
... positions . Not only have readers of Virgil historically been men , but the reading of the Aeneid — as part of Latin training — has been associated with a class - specific performance of masculinity . As a school 7 Introduction.
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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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