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  • Medieval Mythography, Volume One
    Jane Chance
    The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter’s consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth. ...
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  • Medieval Mythography, Volume Two
    Jane Chance
    The second volume in Jane Chance’s study of the history of medieval mythography from the fifth through fifteenth centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of historical and philosophical developments in the story of mythography reflects the ever-increasing importance of the subjectivity...
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    47,28 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume Three
    Jane Chance
    With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal.No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal ...
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    51,16 €

  • Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages
    Jane Chance
    The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages--women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions--often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popul...
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    37,99 €

  • Tolkien, Self and Other
    Jane Chance
    This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized-namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life t...
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    35,40 €

  • The Middle Ages
    Jane Chance
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    22,44 €

  • Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1
    Jane Chance
    Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines--including literature, philology,...
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    65,10 €

  • Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2
    Jane Chance
    Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines--including literature, philology,...
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    57,48 €

  • The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
    Jane Chance
    This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed ’unhomely’ spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female...
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    48,12 €

  • Tolkien the Medievalist
    Jane Chance
    Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the...
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    104,05 €

  • The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
    Jane Chance
    This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed ’unhomely’ spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female...
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    66,57 €

  • Woman As Hero In Old English Literature
    Jane Chance
    The first comprehensive study of heroic women figures in Anglo-Saxon literature investigates English secular and religious prose and poetry from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. Given the paucity of surviving literature from the Anglo-Saxon period, the works which feature major women characters -- often portrayed as heroes -- seem surprisingly numerous. Even more striking...
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    23,19 €

  • Christine de Pizan’s Letter of Othea to Hector
    Jane Chance
    Translated with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to Hector, her most pop...
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    26,98 €