Study Guide: Three Spanish Querelle Texts: Grisel and Mirabella, the Slander Against Women, and the Defense of Ladies Against Slanderers. a Bilingual Edition and Study (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto)

Torrellas, Pere/ De Flores, Juan

ISBN 10: 0772721343 / ISBN 13: 9780772721341

Published by Acmrs Publications, 2013

About this Item

bilingual edition. 206 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Study Guide: Three Spanish Querelle Texts: Grisel and Mirabella, the Slander Against Women, and the Defense of Ladies Against Slanderers. a Bilingual Edition and Study (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto)
• Publisher: Acmrs Publications
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0772721343
• ISBN 13: 9780772721341
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

“This bilingual edition of the Three Spanish Querelle Texts is very well-conceived and will attract a wide audience among specialists and non-specialists alike. Fracomano provides the first modern English translations of texts that enjoyed European-wide celebrity in the early sixteenth century. Her introduction is the best available summary of our knowledge about Torrellas’ two texts and Flores’ Grisel y Mirabella. Her translations are more readable than the Spanish texts, dividing Flores’ elaborate, rambling sentences into more comprehensible discourse. She often captures the tone and ambiguous or mock sincerity in the pleadings of both Flores’ and Torrella’s characters. Francomano has a special sensitivity to the ludic quality of these discourses which helps readers appreciate their expression of ‘male anxiety’ and ‘female agency’ in the gender politics of their era.” — Mark Johnston, Professor of Spanish, DePaul University

About the Author

Emily C. Francomano is Associate Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, where she also teaches in the Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature programs. She is the author of Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (2008) as well as articles on Cárcel de amor, the Libro de buen amor, Castilian vernacular Bibles, and medieval romance (Catalan, French, and Spanish).