The Feminine Personification of Wisdom : a Study of Homer?s Penelope, Cappadocian Macrina, Boethius? Philosophia and Dante?s Beatrice.

By:

Helleman, Wendy Elgersma

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773417090
0773417095

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

809.93384

LOC classification:

BD181 .H35 2009

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Contents:

THE FEMININE PERSONIFICATION OF WISDOM: A Study of Homer's Penelope, Cappadocian Macrina, Boethius' Philosophia, and Dante's Beatrice; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Prefatory Notes; Foreword; Chapter One. Philosophy, Allegory and Feminine Personification; Chapter Two. Wise Penelope; Chapter Three. Macrina: the Combat of Reason against the Passions; Chapter Four. Lady Philosophy: Human and Divine; Chapter Five. Lady Philosophy: Excellent Physician of the Soul; Chapter Six. Dante's Beatrice as Lady Wisdom; Chapter Seven. Reweaving the Strands; References

Summary: This study examines the attribution of abstract values to women by analyzing four characters spanning literary genres and more that 2000 years. Penelope, Macrina, Philosophia, and Beatrice are connected by their contribution to the theme of wisdom through their use of reason against passion. Feminine personification of reason and wisdom makes its own contribution as antidote to traditional understanding of "feminine" as "emotional" or "irrational."

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This study examines the attribution of abstract values to women by analyzing four characters spanning literary genres and more that 2000 years. Penelope, Macrina, Philosophia, and Beatrice are connected by their contribution to the theme of wisdom through their use of reason against passion. Feminine personification of reason and wisdom makes its own contribution as antidote to traditional understanding of "feminine" as "emotional" or "irrational."