{"product_id":"genealogies-of-fiction-women-warriors-and-the-dynastic-imagination-in-the-orlando-furioso-hardback-9780823240371","title":"Genealogies of Fiction; Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando Furioso' (Hardback) 9780823240371","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGenealogies of Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando Furioso'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEleonora Stoppino (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823240371, Fordham University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.592 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis impressive study of the 'Furioso' as illuminated by its little-known medieval sources is thorough and well argued. It forms an important contribution to scholarship on early modern narrative, and will doubtless interest scholars of gender studies as well. (—Renaissance Quarterly) \u003cp\u003e\"A groundbreaking study of Ariosto's medieval sources that benefits from a vision that brings together gender\u003cbr\u003e criticism and source criticism in heretofore unseen ways.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—Dennis Looney, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Examines the figure of Bradamante in the chivalric tradition and in Ariosto's Renaissance-era epic. (—The Chronicle Review) \u003cp\u003e\"Establishing contrasts and parallels with little-known works of the vernacular narrative romance tradition, Stoppino displays impressive erudition and performs a service for the critical\u003cbr\u003e discussion on Ariosto's poem and on early modern narrative.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—Ronald Martinez, \u003ci\u003eBrown University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenealogies of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 early modern texts and\u003cbr\u003e reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso.\u003cbr\u003e Tracing the formation of the character of the warrior woman, from the Amazon to Bradamante, the book analyzes the process of gender construction in early modern Italy. By reading the tension between the representations of women as fighters, lovers, and mothers, this study shows how the warrior woman is a symbolic center for the construction of legitimacy in the complex web of fears and expectations of the\u003cbr\u003e Northern Italian Renaissance court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Modern Language Initiative","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580249665816,"sku":"9780823240371","price":45.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/genealogies-of-fiction-women-warriors-and-the-dynastic-imagination-in-the-orlando-furioso-hardback-9780823240371","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}