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Record Number:
17582
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Altmann , Barbara K.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Reopening the Case: Machaut’s “Jugement” Poems as a Source in Christine de Pizan [The author addresses the relationship between Christine’s debate poems and Guillaume Machaut’s “Judgment” poems (also called “dits”). Christine was highly indebted to a French lyric tradition which includes Machaut, but was skeptical of the misogynist content in his writings; thus, her poems transform this literary tradition through female speakers or viewpoints. For instance, Christine’s depiction of male beauty in the “Dit de Poissy” ironically reworks courtly conventions of female beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno. University of Georgia Press, 1992. Pages 137 - 156.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Beauty in Literature
Christine de Pizan, Poet
Courtly Literature
Debate, Literary Genre
Dits, Literary Genre
Guillaume de Machaut, Poet
Influences
Irony
Literature- History and Criticism
Literature- Verse
Sources
Speech in Literature
Women Authors
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
14- 15
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Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1992.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0820313076