Description:
Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Christine de Pizan in college classrooms, including consideration of architecture, feminism, gender, history, intertextuality, memory, poetics, politics, music, translation, visual narrative, and women's studies. Includes information on reference works and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Brief description:
Andrea Tarnowski is associate professor and chair of the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. She is the editor and translator (into modern French) of Christine de Pizan's Le chemin de longue étude and coeditor of Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France. She is translating Le chemin into English for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series and working on a book comparing the allegorical and political writings of Christine de Pizan, Philippe de Mézières, and Alain Chartier.
Review Quotes:
"This volume draws on the expertise of some of the foremost scholars in the field, and its well-chosen selection of new essays place Christine de Pizan's work within a broad spectrum of pedagogical contexts." --Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto