Approaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Christine de Pizan in college classrooms, including consideration of architecture, feminism, gender, history, intertextuality, memory, poetics, politics, music, translation, visual narrative, and women's studies. Includes information on reference works and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

About the author

Andrea Tarnowski is associate professor and chair of the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. She is the editor and translator (into modern French) of Christine de Pizan's Le chemin de longue étude and coeditor of Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France. She is translating Le chemin into English for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series and working on a book comparing the allegorical and political writings of Christine de Pizan, Philippe de Mézières, and Alain Chartier.

Summary

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion, politics, and morality. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through Pizan’s work.

Product details

• Authors: Tarnowski
• Assisted by: Andrea Tarnowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781603293273
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-327-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Weight: 395 g
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories