Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature

ISBN-13: 9781403971968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 195 str.

Emily Francomano

Opis

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

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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