Approaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan
About this ebook
Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," surveys the editions in Middle French, translations into modern French and English, and the many scholarly resources and critical reactions of the past fifty years. Part 2, "Approaches," provides insights into various aspects of Christine's works that can be explored with students, from considerations of genre and form to the themes of virtue, history, and memory. Teachers of French, English, world literature, and women's studies will find useful ideas throughout the volume.
About the author
Andrea Tarnowski is associate professor and chair of the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. She is the editor and translator (into modern French) of Christine de Pizan's Le chemin de longue étude and coeditor of Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France. She is translating Le chemin into English for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series and working on a book comparing the allegorical and political writings of Christine de Pizan, Philippe de Mézières, and Alain Chartier.
