Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship

• Utgivningsdatum: 2003-05-23
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
• Vikt: 450 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 304
• Förlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• ISBN: 9780268032609

• Religion: allmänt
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• Kristendom

Ann. W. Astell is professor of English at Purdue University. She is the author of several books and editor of Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern, published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

"Astell's book offers a broadly researched and profoundly considered analysis of post-enlightenment portrayals of Joan of Arc in vernacular literature ranging from poetry to biography to drama to film, from Schiller to Sackville-West to Shaw to Dreyer." —Arthuriana"Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship is, quite simply, astonishing in its range and depth of learning. Drawing on René Girard's model of mimetic rivalry, which she merges with Harold Bloom's concept of the anxieties of influence at work in literary revisionism, Astell explores how various post-Enlightenment artists have been magnetized by the mystique and myth of the 'Maid of Orléans.' This is truly comparative analysis of the highest order." —Robert Snyder, State University of West Georgia"Readers have come to expect erudition, sensitivity, and stylistic clarity from Astell; her latest book, while typical of her scholarship in its ambitious range and originality, is more deliberately polemical, its tone firm and incisive. ...Astell courageously plants her flag as a challenge to literary critics in recent decades for whom everything but religion is relevant." —Christianity and Literature"... splendidly readable. ...Astell's lucid style and her thoughtful, sympathetic understanding of Joan of Arc as a literary and cultural martyr, commend this remarkable and in many ways excellent book." —Anglican Theological Review

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