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Titre: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: A Florilegium of her Works
Auteur: Katharina Wilson
Format: Poche
ISBN-10: 0859914895
EAN: 9780859914895
ISBN: 9780859914895
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sujet: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships
Date de publication: 1998-04-16
Description: Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual pre-eminence. Her importance cannot be overestimated: she is the first poet of Saxony; the first known dramatist of Christianity (indeed the first known woman dramatist of any time); and a woman displaying erudition and wit in an essentially patriarchal age, a female author in a literary field dominated by men who insisted on re-evaluating and redrawing the literary depiction of women. Discovered in the late fifteenth century, her extraordinary oeuvre, written in medieval Latin, comprises a wide variety of genres: eight legends, six dramas, and two epics, organised into three books. The present volume contains a selection of Hrotsvit's works in Englishtranslation, together with an interpretative essay, critical introduction, and scholarly apparatus.Professor KATHARINA WILSONteaches at the University of Georgia.
Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: GB
Item Height: 216
Item Length: 135.00
Série: Library of Medieval Women
Année de publication: 1998

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