Synopsis
A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own situation in a world where the power of art has decreased. Blending the theoretical insights of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Rene Girard, Ann W. Astell persuasively argues that many modern authors have seen their own artistic vocation in the visions and voices that inspired Joan.
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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.
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"... offers a broadly researched and profoundly considered analysis of post-enlightenment portrayals of Joan of Arc in vernacular literature ..." -- Arthuriana, Summer 2004, Vol. 14 No. 2
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