Myth, montage, & visuality in late medieval manuscript culture : Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea / Marilynn Desmond & Pamela Sheingorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, Marilynn, 1952-

Contributor:

Sheingorn, Pamela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431. Epître d'Othéa à Hector.

Christine.

Physical Description:

vii, 344 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Myth, montage, and visuality in late medieval manuscript culture

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]

Summary:

A broad multidisciplinary study that uses the "Epistre Othea" to examine the visual presentation of knowledge

Contents:

The cinematic experience: iconography in the age of mechanical reproduction

Constructing masculinities

Envisioning desire

Engendering violence

Visualizing rhetoric.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and indexes.

OCLC:

50960745