Peggy Mc Cracken is the Domna C. Stanton Collegiate Professor of French, Women”s Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
12 Ebooks by Peggy Mccracken
Peggy McCracken: The Romance of Adultery
Peggy Mc Cracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within …
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€64.99
Peggy McCracken: The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero
In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy Mc Cracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of lite …
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€67.99
Sharon Kinoshita & Peggy McCracken: Marie de France: A Critical Companion
This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.
Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to s …
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€32.99
McCracken Peggy McCracken: In the Skin of a Beast
In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet-whether as friends or foes-issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes …
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€60.14
Peggy McCracken & Donald S. Lopez: In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.
The story of Saint Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus …
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€24.99
Jane Gilbert & Miranda Griffin: The Futures of Medieval French
Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field.
Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty y …
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€32.99
Jane Gilbert & Miranda Griffin: Futures of Medieval French
Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field.Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, …
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€31.15
Sharon Kinoshita & Peggy McCracken: Marie de France: A Critical Companion
Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her
Lais, she also translated Aesop’s Fables (the
Ysopë), …
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€23.99
Patricia Badir & Peggy McCracken: Ovidian Transversions
Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literature Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid s tale of Iphis and Ianthe in a number of surprising …
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€35.02
Zrinka Stahuljak & Virginie Greene Sarah Kay: Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes
An exciting reassessment of the works of Chrétien, making use of modern critical theory to test orthodox opinion.
This co-written, multi-stranded book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the …
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€32.99
Patricia Badir & Peggy McCracken: Ovidian Transversions
Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literature Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid s tale of Iphis and Ianthe in a number of surprising …
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€34.97
