DICÇÕES FEMININAS NA LITERATURA

CONVERGÊNCIAS NOS ESCRITOS DE CHRISTINE DE PIZAN E MADELINE MILLER

Abstract

This article presents a comparative reading between the writings of the medieval Italian author Christine de Pizan (1364-1430), in The Book of the City of Ladies (1405), and the contemporary North American author Madeline Miller (1978-present), in Circe (2018). Despite belonging to different times and places, Pizan and Miller converge in questioning their reality and propose a change in that paradigm through their writings. In this way, it’s examined the convergence of the works of these medieval and contemporary writers in the representation of Homer’s sorceress Circe as an independent woman, detached from male figures and the perversion to which she was subjected after her first appearance in Homer’s Odyssey. This study also examines how the ideas and demands of these writers are coherent with their historical contexts: the Middle Ages and the contemporary world. The theoretical foundations of this article is based on postulates of the feminist writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) will be used to understand the need for female authorship to propose new representations of women in literature, along with the ideas of Christine de Pizan's translators and researchers: Luciana Calado Deplagne and Rosalind Brown-Grant – responsible, respectively, for the Portuguese and English versions of The Book of the City of Ladies – to understand Pizan’s historical context.