Fictional Literary Biography

This essay examines how Lauren Groff’s novel, Matrix, creates a fictional life story for Marie de France as it minimizes the importance of the poetic corpus associated with that name. It reads this exchange of poetry for biography against a backdrop of medieval thinking about gender, language, and corporeality.

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ScholarWorks - WMU (Western Michigan University)
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2024-09-12
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Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
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Fictional Literary Biography

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Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
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Fictional Literary Biography

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Abstract

This essay examines how Lauren Groff’s novel, Matrix, creates a fictional life story for Marie de France as it minimizes the importance of the poetic corpus associated with that name. It reads this exchange of poetry for biography against a backdrop of medieval thinking about gender, language, and corporeality.

ScholarWorks - WMU (Western Michigan University)
Gender equality
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Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
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