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Christine de Pizan ca 1364ca 1421 is Europes first professional woman writer She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres including lyric poetry allegorical dream visions history political treatises and biography This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christines major works in fresh contemporary translationsnbsp Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christines oeuvre and tracing the literary developments and the historical situation of the periodnbsp The Book of Fortunes Transformation and The Book of the City of Ladies include manuscript illuminations Criticism collects seven important interpretations of the literary and historical aspects of Christines work by Jacqueline Cerquiglini Beatrice Gottlieb Renate BlumenfeldKosinski Sheila Delany Patricia A Phillippy Joel Blanchard and Kevin Brownleenbsp A Selected Bibliography is included
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Born in 1915 on July the fourth Christine Thonhauser Lavant was the ninth child of a miner Georg and his wife Anna and grew up in poverty While the poetry she was later to write contained the language of spirituality the pain she described in it came from actual conditions which she suffered scrofula and tuberculosis of the lungs Being disadvantaged in health also meant she could not complete her education as intended Unable to do hard physical work she earned a living with knitting and weaving until she gained a reputation as a writer Along with these health problems she had depression to endure Poor hearing or blindness in her poetry were not conjured metaphors for a general condition For example the first stanza of a poem from Spindel Im Mond Shatter the bell in my ear slash the knot in my throat warm my strangled heart and ripen my eyeballs Writing sometimes in rhyme sometimes in free verse Lavant employed directness in her language I have chosen more of the free verse poems to translate and when there is rhyme I find it preferable to hold on to tone and meaning than attempting to replicate the echoing sounds The use of sun and moon and stars would easily become a cliché were it not for the unusual slant in the work So strong was Lavant s connection to the commonplace elements that moon and stars become symbols illuminating her particular troubled road to Heaven Even glancing at first lines in several of the poems here displays this tendency The moon s halo was never so large I hear the heavy moon approaching Ever closer to the Milky Way s edge The moon s signal light
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A compilation of the great 15th century French writer Christine de Pizans most important works rendered into English by major scholars and translators With an introduction by the foremost authority on de Pizan Charity Cannon Willard nbsp Christine de Pizan Frances first woman of letters is widely known for her classic Book of the City of Ladies Persea 1982 but very few of her many other distinguished works have been translated into English The Writings of Christine de Pizan offers lengthy excerpts of nearly all of Christines works in authoritative and gracious translations Among the writings are Christines autobiography lyric and allegorical poetry the official biography of King Charles V writings on women warfare politics love and the human condition writings from the famous Quarrel of the Rose The Book of the City of Ladies The Treasury of the City of Ladies The Book of the Duke of True Lovers and Christines triumphant poem on Joan of Arc Edited and with an introduction by the foremost authority on Christines work Charity Cannon Willard who sets the writings in historical biographical and literary context
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A compilation of the great 15th century French writer Christine de Pizans most important works rendered into English by major scholars and translators With an introduction by the foremost authority on de Pizan Charity Cannon Willard nbsp Christine de Pizan Frances first woman of letters is widely known for her classic Book of the City of Ladies Persea 1982 but very few of her many other distinguished works have been translated into English The Writings of Christine de Pizan offers lengthy excerpts of nearly all of Christines works in authoritative and gracious translations Among the writings are Christines autobiography lyric and allegorical poetry the official biography of King Charles V writings on women warfare politics love and the human condition writings from the famous Quarrel of the Rose The Book of the City of Ladies The Treasury of the City of Ladies The Book of the Duke of True Lovers and Christines triumphant poem on Joan of Arc Edited and with an introduction by the foremost authority on Christines work Charity Cannon Willard who sets the writings in historical biographical and literary context
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