Joan of Arc - The Image of Female Heroism

A fascinating study of the symbolism of Joan of Arc in her own time and ever since in literature, politics, on the stage, and on screen.

About the author

Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (l985) and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2002; her essays on literature and culture were collected in Signs & Wonders (2000), and Phantasmagoria, a study of spirits and technology, appeared in 2006. Marina Warner was created a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French in 2002, and a Commendatore by the Italians in 2005. She was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany in 2004, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and President of the British Comparative Literature Association. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Oxford gave her an Honorary Doctorate in 2005.

Summary

A fascinating study of the symbolism of Joan of Arc in her own time and ever since in literature, politics, on the stage, and on screen.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Warner, Marina (Writer Warner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2016
• EAN: 9780198718796
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871879-6
• No. of pages: 402
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries