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Women's Literature 6 Christine De Pizan: Allegory in the Book of the City of Ladies 122 Views
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Thank you We sneak Christine do present allegory in the
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book of the city of ladies last minute So one
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of the ways she gets around the constraints on what
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she conseco's by using a lot of allegory that's a
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way for her to take historical knowledge and make it
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relevant Yeah and she also uses he's in this very
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renaissance e way she's embodiments of ideas So like rectitude
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and honestly or these women i'm kind of flouncing around
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saying things So where we have this makes the city
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of ladies is both allegorical embodiments and actual historical figures
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So kind of wonky mix But it it works What's
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An allegory Why did busan use allegory I take cleared 00:00:57.093 --> [endTime] inform eye allegories Oh wait Oops
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