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Offers a reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman referred to as Marie de France in contemporary times. This book considers almost all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

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"After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

The Anonymous Marie de France

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780226059686, 978-0226059686
    ISBN10: 0226059685
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    ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: ancient, classical

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Offers a reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman referred to as Marie de France in contemporary times. This book considers almost all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

    Trade Review
    "After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

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