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... suggesting that pietas so conceived is a flawed ideal since it seems not to require humane virtues or any personal loyalty or affection which does not ultimately subserve what we might term political or military goals . Love for ...
... suggesting that pietas so conceived is a flawed ideal since it seems not to require humane virtues or any personal loyalty or affection which does not ultimately subserve what we might term political or military goals . Love for ...
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... suggests instead that sexuality was categorized around a concept of a " penetration code " that was " clearly not related to a dichotomy of sexual preference , but to uses of power , dominance and sub- mission . " 174 Although women are ...
... suggests instead that sexuality was categorized around a concept of a " penetration code " that was " clearly not related to a dichotomy of sexual preference , but to uses of power , dominance and sub- mission . " 174 Although women are ...
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... suggests an alternate paradigm for the cultural reception of Virgil's Aeneid . Vernacular poets read and imitated , adapted or even " translated " Virgil's text , yet vernacu- lar texts could never fully participate in the textual ...
... suggests an alternate paradigm for the cultural reception of Virgil's Aeneid . Vernacular poets read and imitated , adapted or even " translated " Virgil's text , yet vernacu- lar texts could never fully participate in the textual ...
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... 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 centuries — the sequence of textual analysis does not follow a strict ...
... 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 centuries — the sequence of textual analysis does not follow a strict ...
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... suggest alternate para- digms that might free us from some of the tyrannies of historical chronologies that provide the standard framework for literary study and often appear to thwart feminist projects . This study is also meant to ...
... suggest alternate para- digms that might free us from some of the tyrannies of historical chronologies that provide the standard framework for literary study and often appear to thwart feminist projects . This study is also meant to ...
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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