Elena Lombardi (University of Oxfor Associate Professor of Italian

Gebundenes Buch

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Beschreibung

A study of the figure of the woman reader in medieval Italian literature that places her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her.

Autor

Elena Lombardi graduated from the University of Pavia, with a thesis in nineteenth-century philology, and received her Ph.D. from NYU with a thesis on Dante and the medieval theory of language. She was Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at McGill University, then Senior Lecturer in Italian at Bristol, and now is Associate Professor at Oxford. She is the author of The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae and Dante (2007) and The Wings of the Doves: Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (2012), has co-edited volumes on Dante and medieval culture. She has published several essays on medieval literature and on the Renaissance epic poem, d'Annuzio and De Sica.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780198818960
• ISBN-10: 0198818963
• Artikelnr.: 50989041