Myth, Montage, And Visuality In Late Medieval Manuscript Culture : Christine De Pizan’s Epistre Othea
E-Book Overview
Explores the ethical implications of viewing illustrated manuscripts for the medieval reader. This work suggests that pre-modern and post-modern cultures share a predilection for the cinematic arrangement of knowledge in a montage format in which meaning derives from unexpected juxtapositions.
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Year: 2,006
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City: Ann Arbor
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Pages: 344
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Pages In File: 362
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Language: English
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Topic: 102
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Identifier: 9780472031832,047203183X
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Org File Size: 197,752,915
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Extension: pdf
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Christine, -- de Pisan, -- approximately 1364-approximately 1431 -- Epître d’Othéa à Hector
Epître d’Othéa à Hector (Christine, de Pisan)
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Toc: The cinematic experience: iconography in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Constructing masculinities -- Envisioning desire -- Engendering violence -- Visualizing rhetoric.