Emily C. Francomano

Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7196-8
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781403971968
• ISBN-10: 140397196X
• Artikelnr.: 23306692

Autorenporträt

EMILY C. FRANCOMANO is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Bodies of Knowledge: Lady Wisdom, Personification, and Memory Lady Wisdom My Brother: Reading Sapientia in Medieval Castile Figures of Matter and Form: Feminine Personification and Epistemology in the Visión deleytable The Wise Virgin's Confounding Body of Knowledge Sor Juana and St. Catherine: From Blood Martyrdom to a Holocaust of the Intellect Commonplaces and Common Women: Lady Wisdom, the Strange Woman, and Bawdy Bodies of Knowledge

Rezensionen

"In a study that features close readings of little-known and very well known texts and examination of marginalia and other indications of reader response, [Francomano] deftly traces the troubled relationship between women and wisdom . . . an overview cannot do justice to the richness and complexity of Emily Francomano's book." - Speculum