The Anonymous Marie de France
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100226059847
- ISBN-139780226059846
- Goodreads229504
- LibraryThing1968303
- OCLC Control Number64554674
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780226059846
- Open LibraryOL7415405M
Classifications
- LCCPQ1495.B53 2006
Description
This book offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. It considers all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous 'Lais', her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular 'Saint Patrick's Purgatory'. Evidence about Marie de France's life is so meagre that we know next to nothing about her. In the face of this great writer's near anonymity, scholars have assumed her to be a simple, naive, and modest Christian figure. This book's claim, in contrast, is that Marie is among the most self-conscious, sophisticated, complicated, and disturbing figures of her time.
First Sentence
Let us assume for the moment that Marie de France was a woman and that she was French.
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