"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous "Lais", her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, "Saint Patrick's Purgatory". Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of her time - a ...
Read More
"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous "Lais", her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, "Saint Patrick's Purgatory". Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of her time - a writer whose works reveal an acute awareness not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but also of the transformative psychological, social, and political effects of her writing within an oral tradition. "The Anonymous Marie de France" recovers the central achievements of one of the most pivotal figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Anonymous Marie De France to cart. $22.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Chicago Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good in Very good jacket. Great condition. Jacket edges are lightly worn, but cloth cover boards are in excellent shape. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked.
Add this copy of The Anonymous Marie De France to cart. $25.50, like new condition, Sold by James Payne, Books and Prints rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine. in Near Fine. jacket. Size: 6x1x9; [LITERATURE]. Bloch, R. Howard. "The Anonymous Marie de France." Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. English. Hardcover in jacket. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine and scarlet endpapers. 9.25 x 6.25 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 3 cm. 8 oz. Minor crinkling on bottom of back dust jacket. Text clean. Fine in Near Fine jacket. ISBN: 9780226059686."This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Evidence about Marie de France's life is so meager that we know next to nothing about her-not where she was born and to what rank, who her parents were, whether she was married or single, where she lived and might have traveled, whether she dwelled in cloister or at court, nor whether in England or France. In the face of this great writer's near anonymity, scholars have assumed her to be a simple, naive, and modest Christian figure. Bloch's claim, in contrast, is that Marie is among the most self-conscious, sophisticated, complicated, and disturbing figures of her time-the Joyce of the twelfth century."
Add this copy of The Anonymous Marie De France to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Libris Hardback Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Penn Laird, VA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Chicago Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Brown cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine, corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Dust jacket shows light shelf creasing. Binding tight, pages very clean, previous owner indication on inside front cover is the only marking. 367 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.
Add this copy of The Anonymous Marie De France to cart. $61.87, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Chicago Press.
Add this copy of The Anonymous Marie De France to cart. $103.50, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Chicago Press.
