'Each...according...to his intention': Three Phases of Christine de Pizan's Literary Influence Through the Ages
| Autor: | Nadia Margolis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Florilegium. 18:97-121 |
| ISSN: | 2369-7180 0709-5201 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/flor.18.008 |
| Popis: | Many scholars participating in the current boom in Christine de Pizan studies tend to think of the "discovery of Christine" as a phenomenon limited to the past thirty—or even ten—years. In truth, however, Christine has been alive in the Western literary imagination—if not flamboyantly so—since the fifteenth century. Alongside her predictable presence among resurgent feminists, her courageously political-moral persona, whether in verse or in prose, has found welcome within the least likely writings, "embroidered" or "mortared" into the totality of the particular author's message, as one of the author's "strands" or "bricks," chascune at elle doit servir, selon la fin de l'intention oú it tent "each one where it should best serve, according to the needs of his intention," to use Christine's own metaphors for (especially didactic) literary composition.' The reasons for Christine's enduring attraction are twofold: her heroic conversion from helpless victim to active participant in the major events of her era, and her talent for literary self-fashioning while evoking this real-life transformation. Both traits would be replicated among even the most improbable of her modern borrowers. |
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