{"product_id":"imagining-the-woman-reader-in-the-age-of-dante-hardcover","title":"Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElena Lombardi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante\u003c\/em\u003e brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Guittone d'Arezzo's piercing critic, the 'villainous woman', to the mysterious Lady who bids Guido Cavalcanti to write his grand philosophical song, to Dante's female co-editors in the \u003cem\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/em\u003e and his great characters of female readers, such as Francesca and Beatrice in the \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e, all the way to Boccaccio's overtly female audience, this particular interlocutor appears to be central to the construct of textuality and the construction of literary authority. This volume explores the figure of the woman reader by contextualizing her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her. It argues that these figures are not mere veneers between a male author and a 'real' male readership, but that, although fictional, they bring several advantages to their vernacular authors, such as orality, the mother tongue, the recollection of the delights of early education, literality, freedom in\u003cbr\u003einterpretation, absence of teleology, the beauties of ornamentation and amplification, a reduced preoccupation with the fixity of the text, the pleasure of making mistakes, dialogue with the other, the extension of desire, original simplicity, and new and more flexible forms of authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElena Lombardi, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Italian, University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElena Lombardi graduated from the University of Pavia, with a thesis in nineteenth-century philology, and received her Ph.D. from NYU with a thesis on Dante and the medieval theory of language. She was Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at McGill University, then Senior Lecturer in Italian at Bristol, and now is Associate Professor at Oxford. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae and Dante\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eThe Wings of the Doves: Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), has co-edited volumes on Dante and medieval culture. She has published several essays on medieval literature and on the Renaissance epic poem, d'Annuzio and De Sica.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039650025552,"sku":"9780198818960","price":195.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/M0txNHAwTnFUN3owOFFleVVMRHVOZz09.webp?v=1771841640","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/imagining-the-woman-reader-in-the-age-of-dante-hardcover","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}