Genealogies of Fiction : Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando furioso' / Eleonora Stoppino.
Stoppino, Eleonora, author.
2022
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Title Genealogies of Fiction : Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando furioso' / Eleonora Stoppino.
Author Stoppino, Eleonora, author.
ISBN 9780823291670
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291670
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (282 p.) : 5 Illustrations, black and white
Item Number 10.1515/9780823291670 doi
Summary 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 early modern texts and reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso. 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 Northern Italian Renaissance court.
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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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