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By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar.
WSJ: Review: Captivating, eloquent 'Women of Will'
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Both the composition and the color of the images are stirringly beautiful, but they feel loaded with symbolism and sentiment: an emaciated man swaying with exhaustion during an interminable roll call appears to be experiencing a kind of transcendent ecstasy, like Joan of Arc on the pyre.
NEWYORKER: Fateless
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In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
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