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| ISBN: | 9780813164656
0813164656
0813113113
9780813113111
0813154871
9780813154879
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This study examines all the characterizations of the female personality in the Divine Comedy, including representations of things traditionally categorized as feminine. Marianne Shapiro treats different traditional feminine roles such as wife, lover, and mother, and places Beatrice in the latter group. The problem of woman is studied within the general context of medieval literature. Shapiro's conclusions center largely upon Dante's adherence to a generally misogynistic tradition. While in his earlier works his concept of woman was as a comprehensive whole encompassing good and evil, in the Co.
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| Other form: | Print version: Shapiro, Marianne. Woman Earthly and Divine in the Comedy of Dante. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1975 9780813154879
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