Les genres didactiques au féminin: Christine de Pizan, interprete des "Autorités"
Abstract
This paper discusses Christine de Pizan's status as a female didactic writer. It focuses on The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the Three Virtues (1405). Although the latter may be considered rather conservative, a survival handbook for XVth-century women without any utopian view, these two books must be read as a dyptique. The analysis brings to light Christine's strategies of self-legitimation, among them rhetorical devices (quotation and praise of her former writings by the allegorical protagonists) and thematical statements (a revival of particularly significant mythological or historical characters to supply new female paradigms). The conclusion reasserts that, in both books and Christine's didactic works as a whole, her quest for authorship and her affirmation of self can't be dissociated from her commitment as a female reader and writer.Metrics
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