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Genealogies of fiction : women warriors and the dynastic imagination in the Orlando furioso /

"This book is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and renaissance chivalric epic, focusing on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso (1516-1532). Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, it challenges the fixed distinction between medieval an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stoppino, Eleonora
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Marriage by Duel: Genealogies of the Warrior Woman
  • An Amazonian Past: Female Rule and the Threat of Illegitimacy
  • The Paradox of Helen: Genealogies and Textual Hierarchies in Orlando furioso, Canto XXXIV
  • The Poem as a Prophecy: Gendered Gifts in the Orlando furioso
  • Externi Thalami: The Orlando furioso as a Nuptial Epic
  • Conclusion: Mixed Genealogies.