LEADER 03695nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910459427003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-73846-1 010 $a9786612738463 010 $a0-226-51984-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226519845 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034969 035 $a(EBL)574763 035 $a(OCoLC)658200303 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000417901 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417901 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10370694 035 $a(PQKB)10349402 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC574763 035 $a(DE-B1597)525057 035 $a(OCoLC)1135586056 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226519845 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL574763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409370 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL273846 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034969 100 $a20010215d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFor fear of the fire$b[electronic resource] $eJoan of Arc and the limits of subjectivity /$fFranc?oise Meltzer 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-51981-3 311 $a0-226-51982-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION: THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR -- $tCHAPTER ONE. THE BODY REVISITED -- $tCHAPTER TWO. THE DISCOURSE OF VIRGINITY: A FLIGHT BEFORE LIGHT -- $tCHAPTER THREE. PROFESSIONS OF VIRGINITY -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. RESPONSIO MORTIFERA: THE VOICE OF THE MAID -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. FEAR OF FIRE: DEATH AND THE IMPOSSIBLE -- $tCHAPTER SIX. FATHER, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BURNING? -- $tINDEX OF PROPER NAMES 330 $aWhy are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses the story of Joan as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for a body that is intact and transparent. She argues that critics who place excessive emphasis on opposition and difference remain blind to their nostalgia for the pre-Cartesian idea that the body and mind are the same. Engaging a number of theorists, and alternating between Joan's historical and cultural context, Meltzer also explores the ways in which postmodern thinkers question subjectivity. She argues that the way masculine subjects imagine Joan betrays their fear of death and necessitates the role of women as cultural others: enigmatic, mysterious, dark, and impossible. As such, Joan serves as a useful model of the limits and risks of subjectivity. For Meltzer, she is both the first modern and the last medieval figure. From the ecclesial jury that burned her, to the theorists of today who deny their attraction to the supernatural, the philosophical assumptions that inform Joan's story, as Meltzer ultimately shows, have changed very little. 606 $aChristian women saints$zFrance$vBiography 606 $aVirginity 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yCharles VII, 1422-1461 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian women saints 615 0$aVirginity. 676 $a944/.026/092 676 $aB 700 $aMeltzer$b Franc?oise$0251705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459427003321 996 $aFor fear of the fire$91940986 997 $aUNINA