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Selected Poems and Translations
Madeleine De L´aubespine
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Description for Selected Poems and Translations
Paperback. Madeleine de l'Aubespine penned beautiful love poems to the famous women of her day. This book features sonnets as well as reproductions of l'Aubespine's poetic translations of "Ovid and Ariosto", useful for students and scholars in literature, history, and women's studies. Editor(s): Klosowska, Anna. Translator(s): Klosowska, Anna. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 130 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546-96), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to the famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l'Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopting the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l'Aubespine's speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant, and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed ... Read more
Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546-96), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to the famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l'Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopting the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l'Aubespine's speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant, and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
Series
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226141947
SKU
V9780226141947
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About Madeleine De L´aubespine
Anna Klosowska is associate professor of French at Miami University.
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