Genealogies of Fiction : : Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando furioso' /

Genealogies of Fiction : : Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando furioso' / / Eleonora Stoppino.

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Genealogies of Fiction is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and renaissance chivalric epic, focused on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, this project challenges the fixed distinction between medieval and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Stoppino, Eleonora,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 5 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Marriage by Duel: Genealogies of the Warrior Woman
  • 2. An Amazonian Past: Female Rule and the Threat of Illegitimacy
  • 3. The Paradox of Helen: Genealogies and Textual Hierarchies in Orlando furioso, Canto XXXIV
  • 4. The Poem as a Prophecy: Gendered Gifts in the Orlando furioso
  • 5. Externi Thalami: The Orlando furioso as a Nuptial Epic
  • Conclusion. Mixed Genealogies: The Orlando furioso as Hybrid Text
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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