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| Named Person: | Marie, de France; Marie, de France; Marie, de France; Marie, de France. |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R Howard Bloch |
| ISBN: | 0226059685 9780226059686 |
| OCLC Number: | 50669186 |
| Description: | xi, 367 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The word aventure and the adventure of words --If words could kill : the Lais and fatal speech --The voice in the tomb of the Lais -- Beastly talk : the Fables -- Changing places : the Fables and social mobility at the court of Henry II -- Marie's Fables and the rise of the monarchic state -- A medieval "best seller" -- Between fable and romance -- The Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland and the colonization of the afterlife. |
| Responsibility: | R. Howard Bloch. |
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Abstract:
Offers a reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman referred to as Marie de France in contemporary times. This book considers almost all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous "Lais", her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, "Saint Patrick's Purgatory".
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"After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"
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