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For fear of the fire : Joan of Arc and the limits of subjectivity / Françoise Meltzer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [(c)2001.]Description: 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226519845
  • 0226519848
  • 1282738461
  • 9781282738461
  • 9786612738463
  • 6612738464
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  • DC103
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Snows of Yesteryear; Chapter One: The Body Revisited; Chapter Two: The Discourse of Virginity: A Flight Before Light; Chapter Three: Professions of Virginity; Chapter Four: Responso Mortifera: The Voice of the Maid; Chapter Five: Fear of Fire: Death and the Impossible; Chapter Six: Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?; Index of Proper Names.
Summary: Why are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses the story of Joan as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for a body that is intact and transparent. She argues that critics who place excessive emphasis on opposition and difference remain blind to their nostalgia for the pre-Cartesian idea that the body and mind are the same. Engaging.
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Why are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses the story of Joan as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for a body that is intact and transparent. She argues that critics who place excessive emphasis on opposition and difference remain blind to their nostalgia for the pre-Cartesian idea that the body and mind are the same. Engaging.

Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Snows of Yesteryear; Chapter One: The Body Revisited; Chapter Two: The Discourse of Virginity: A Flight Before Light; Chapter Three: Professions of Virginity; Chapter Four: Responso Mortifera: The Voice of the Maid; Chapter Five: Fear of Fire: Death and the Impossible; Chapter Six: Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?; Index of Proper Names.

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