The Anonymous Marie de France
by R. Howard Bloch
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0226059685
- ISBN 13
- 9780226059686
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Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Exchange Value Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0004031
- Title
- The Anonymous Marie de France
- Author
- R. Howard Bloch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0226059685
- ISBN 13
- 9780226059686
- Publisher
- Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago And London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Keywords
- Marie de France, France, French History, Literature, Women, Feminism, History, Bloch, Writing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 24 oz
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The dealer is an alum of the Rare Book School and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.
I started in the trade at the Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore, and previously worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art's Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Besides selling books, I proofread them for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. jamespayne.info.
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