Document Type
Article
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.
Acknowledgements
I’d like to thank many readers for their thoughtful suggestions, especially the anonymous ones at Medieval Feminist Forum, Mary Kate Hurley, Abigail Zitin, and the members of the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium at Rutgers.
Keywords
Matrix, Lauren Groff, Marie de France, poetry, anonymity, fiction, gender
Recommended Citation
Novacich, Sarah E. "Fictional Literary Biography." Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 59, No. 2 (2024)
