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Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc's "Le Champion des Dames"
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The Champion of Ladies (1440-42) by Martin Le Franc represents the most extensive defense of women (24,336 octosyllabic verses) within a long series of vernacular works in prose and poetry comprising the corpus of La Querelle des Femmes, which took place during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in France.1 In the Champion of Ladies, an allegorical response to classical and contemporary misogynous attacks on women, Le Franc employed a poetic form composed of octaves (huritains) of octosyll...
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Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc's "Le Champion des Dames"
Fifteenth Century Studies
; The Champion of Ladies (1440-42) by Martin Le Franc represents the most extensive defense of women (24,336 octosyllabic verses) within a long series of vernacular works in prose and poetry comprising the corpus of La Querelle des Femmes, which took place during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
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March of the muses
New Orleans Magazine
; Random Musing: An offhand comment about riding in a parade led lawyer Stacy Rosenberg to form the Krewe of Muses, an allfemale krewe that rolls Feb. 21. The density of an idea can range from ether to concrete. In a conversation with Stacy Rosenberg, you can feel the brick and mortar forming around
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Eros unseated.(The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired)(Book Review)
American Scholar
; THE LIVES OF THE MUSES: NINE WOMEN AND THE ARTISTS THEY INSPIRED By Francine Prose. HarperCollins. $25.95. It's a rotten time to be writing about muses. Muses--those liminally visible women who inspire art--have not aged well in Western culture. Deified as goddesses in classical times, idolized as
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MARCH OF THE Muses
New Orleans Magazine
; Distaff with a difference "IF I START A PARADE, DO YOU WANT TO BE IN IT?" FROM A simple phone call made by Staci Rosenberg in 1999, to a krewe of over 1,100 women a mere seven years later, the Krewe of Muses is a powerful and inclusive group of diverse women out to have fun - and help New Orleans
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WHOSE MUSE? WHEN IT COMES TO INSPIRATION FOR THEIR ART, MEN HAVE MUSES - WOMEN HAVE DADDIES THE POWER OF THE `NEGATIVE MUSE'
The Boston Globe
; [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] The mean streets of literary history have witnessed their share of blood feuds and brawls, but nothing quite like what happened this fall when an unknown slip of a girl knocked a famous muse off her pedestal and laid claim to being the true
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Modern men's muses: women anchored in our human world.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Stephanie Deutsch, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The classical world celebrated nine Muses - Clio, Thalia, Terpsichore, Calliope, Euterpe, Melpomene, Erato, Polymnia and Urania - mythic creatures, goddesses of the arts and sciences, inspirers of men. History, comedy, dance, epic verse,
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The lives of the muses: nine women and the artists they inspired
Herizons
; HARPER FLAMINGO CANADA, 2002 In her first non-fiction book, Francine Prose examines the relationships of nine female muses with the male artists they inspired. Arranging them in chronological order, she selects familiar and unfamiliar figures from various art forms spanning three centuries. She
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Writer turns to 'Muses'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Writer turns to 'Muses' By SUSAN SALTER REYNOLDS Los Angeles Times Monday, November 4, 2002 Los Angeles -- Virginia Woolf begat Susan Sontag, who begat Francine Prose. It's not just about the writing; it's about the uncompromising ferocity. Prose's books -- 11 works of fiction, three of non-fiction
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Stone maidens, rough and smooth, stand up as DeCordova `Muses'
The Boston Globe
; CARLOS DORRIEN: THE NINE MUSES AND OTHER PROJECTS Organized by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo At: the DeCordova Sculpture Terrace and in the Sculpture Terrace Gallery, through May 10 LINCOLN -- The theme of some of the world's greatest sculpture is the human figure emerging from stone. Egyptian statues
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RESTAURANT REVIEW; Two one-of-a-kind cafes; RockStar, 3 Muses offer choices the city can't afford to lose.(TASTE)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Jeremy Iggers; Staff Writer Our server at 3 Muses, who just happened to be owner Tamah Burke, was very blunt. Business at the little Uptown bistro has been terrible this fall, she told us. If we enjoyed our visit, we should tell our friends, because unless business improves in January, the
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