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  title info:
    title: Reclaiming Catherine of Siena
    sub title: literacy, literature, and the signs of others
  name:
    name part: Tylus, Jane
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), the first woman to leave behind a body of written work in Italian, wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no formal education, and her accomplishments were considered miracles rather than the work of her own hand. As a result, she has been largely excluded from accounts of the development of European humanism and the language and literature of Italy. Reclaiming Catherine of Siena makes the case for considering Catherine alongside literary giants such as Dante and Petrarch, as it underscores Catherine's commitment to using the vernacular to manifest Christ's message - and her own. Jane Tylus charts here the contested struggles of scholars over the centuries to situate Catherine in the history of Italian culture in early modernity. But she mainly focuses on Catherine's works, calling attention to the interplay between orality and textuality in the letters and demonstrating why it was so important for Catherine to envision herself as a writer. Tylus argues for a reevalution of Catherine as not just a medieval saint, but one of the major figures at the birth of the Italian literary canon.
  table of contents: Girolamo Gigli's burning books -- Heroes, villains, and a Frenchman -- Vernacular voices of the donna : Pisa -- Writing and presence : the Val d'Orcia -- The idea of the book : Rome -- Aftermath.
  note: Jane Tylus.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-301) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: of Siena, Saint
      name part: Catherine
      name part: 1347-1380
    topic: Literary art
  classification: BX4700.C4 T95 2009
  classification: 282.092
  identifier: 9780226821283 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0226821285 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008011338
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 080313
    record change date: 20151202115817.0
    record identifier: in00002652066