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Zusatztext "In a study that features close readings of little-known and very well known texts and examination of marginalia and other indications of reader response! [Francomano] deftly traces the troubled relationship between women and wisdom . . . an overview cannot do justice to the richness and complexity of Emily Francomano's book." - Speculum Informationen zum Autor EMILY C. FRANCOMANO is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, USA. Klappentext This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom. Zusammenfassung This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed! and also how readers read! the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Bodies of Knowledge: Lady Wisdom, Personification, and Memory Lady Wisdom My Brother: Reading Sapientia in Medieval Castile Figures of Matter and Form: Feminine Personification and Epistemology in the Visión deleytable The Wise Virgin's Confounding Body of Knowledge Sor Juana and St. Catherine: From Blood Martyrdom to a Holocaust of the Intellect Commonplaces and Common Women: Lady Wisdom, the Strange Woman, and Bawdy Bodies of Knowledge
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Bodies of Knowledge: Lady Wisdom, Personification, and Memory Lady Wisdom My Brother: Reading Sapientia in Medieval Castile Figures of Matter and Form: Feminine Personification and Epistemology in the Visión deleytable The Wise Virgin's Confounding Body of Knowledge Sor Juana and St. Catherine: From Blood Martyrdom to a Holocaust of the Intellect Commonplaces and Common Women: Lady Wisdom, the Strange Woman, and Bawdy Bodies of Knowledge
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"In a study that features close readings of little-known and very well known texts and examination of marginalia and other indications of reader response, [Francomano] deftly traces the troubled relationship between women and wisdom . . . an overview cannot do justice to the richness and complexity of Emily Francomano's book." - Speculum