Genealogies of fiction [[electronic resource] ] : women warriors and the dynastic imagination in the Orlando furioso / / Eleonora Stoppino

• Autore: Stoppino Eleonora
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 268 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 851/.3
• Soggetto topico: Amazons in literature; Genealogy in literature; Intertextuality; Sex role in literature; Women in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Genealogies of Fiction is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and Renaissance chivalric epic, focused on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, this project challenges the fixed distinction between medieval and early modern texts and reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso. Tracing the formation of the character of the warrior woman, from the amazon to Bradamante, the book analyzes the process of gender construction in early modern Italy. By reading the tension between the representations of women as fighters, lovers, and mothers, this study shows how the warrior woman is a symbolic center for the construction of legitimacy in the complex web of fears and expectations of the Northern Italian Renaissance court"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Genealogies of fiction
• ISBN: 0-8232-4041-X; 0-8232-4938-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463610003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II