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... narration of her ( fictional ) self being turned away from the entrance to the Bodleian library and her comment " that a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library . Venerable and ...
... narration of her ( fictional ) self being turned away from the entrance to the Bodleian library and her comment " that a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library . Venerable and ...
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... narrator of classical stories ; Caxton reads Dido as a compiler and a printer as much as a translator ; Douglas ... narrator's masculine subject positions in Chaucerian texts , Boccaccio's humanist anxiety about women readers , and the ...
... narrator of classical stories ; Caxton reads Dido as a compiler and a printer as much as a translator ; Douglas ... narrator's masculine subject positions in Chaucerian texts , Boccaccio's humanist anxiety about women readers , and the ...
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... narrator that the incident in the cave initiated death and sorrow . Nonetheless , the scene is highly indeterminate , and Dido and Aeneas each offer different interpretations of the events in the cave . The narrator summarizes Dido's ...
... narrator that the incident in the cave initiated death and sorrow . Nonetheless , the scene is highly indeterminate , and Dido and Aeneas each offer different interpretations of the events in the cave . The narrator summarizes Dido's ...
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... narrator's focus on her ignorance of fate , Dido's prophetic curse implicates her more directly in the telescopic sweep of Roman history than any of her other actions in Aeneid 4. Dido's iden- tification with Carthage makes her a ...
... narrator's focus on her ignorance of fate , Dido's prophetic curse implicates her more directly in the telescopic sweep of Roman history than any of her other actions in Aeneid 4. Dido's iden- tification with Carthage makes her a ...
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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