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1. Record Number: 8069
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Title : Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature [The author argues that Christine de Pizan reinterprets the figure of Nature, making her a representation of all forms of female creativity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski .   Cornell University Press, 2003.  Pages 135 - 155.
Year of Publication: 2003.
2. Record Number: 4369
Author(s): Thompson, John Jay.
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Title : Medea in Christine de Pizan's "Mutacion de Fortune," or How to Be a Better Mother [the author argues that Christine becomes a man in spirit in the "Mutacion;" she becomes every man following in the steps of the man Christ in the "Juste Vie;" Christine provides a counter example to Medea who followed the path of "Grant Science" and met with disaster; the appendices reproduce four short textual extracts concerning Medea, two from the "Mutacion de Fortune" and "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César].
Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies , 35., 2 ( 1999):  Pages 158 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1999.
3. Record Number: 1713
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Title : Christine et les conventions dans le "Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune" : "abriger en parolles voires"
Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont .   Paradigme, 1995. Forum for Modern Language Studies , 35., 2 ( 1999):  Pages 349 - 356.
Year of Publication: 1995.
4. Record Number: 1692
Author(s): Brownlee, Kevin.
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Title : Hector and Penthesilea in the "Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune" : Christine de Pizan and the Politics of Myth
Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont .   Paradigme, 1995. Forum for Modern Language Studies , 35., 2 ( 1999):  Pages 69 - 82.
Year of Publication: 1995.
5. Record Number: 10374
Author(s): Beer, Jeanette M. A.
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Title : Stylistic Conventions in "Le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune" [In her allegorical poem, Christine uses rhetorical devices (particularly “dilatio,” “amplificatio,” and “abbreviatio”) in order to construct her relationship with her readers. While she does use some tropes that male poets use, Christine disassociates herself from particular tropes used in Jean de Meun’s “Roman de la Rose” and Guillaume Machaut’s “Livre de Voir-Dit.” The author also argues that Christine is unable to integrate the question of Jewish history into the larger historical vision of the work. 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. Forum for Modern Language Studies , 35., 2 ( 1999):  Pages 124 - 136.
Year of Publication: 1992.
6. Record Number: 11066
Author(s): Brownlee, Kevin.
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Title : The Image of History in Christine de Pizan’s "Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune" [Christine creates a double representation of history in this poem. In addition to relating all the great events in human history, she also presents a personal history in the form of an allegorical autobiography. This narrative fictionalizes her own development into the author of the book, as Christine presents her past self reading a sequence of wall paintings. As she narrates these images, Christine establishes her unique authority as a female poet of history, differentiating herself from the male wall-reading protagonists of the Aeneid, Roman de le Rose, the Prose Lancelot, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Yale French Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) (1991): 44-56. Special Editions: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature.Link Info
Year of Publication: 1991.