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Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Rollo, David

 
9780226724614: Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226724611 ISBN 13: 9780226724614
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust: fiction, conceived as a devious contrivance that falsified God&;s order; and rhetorical opulence, viewed as a vain extravagance. Writing that offered these dangerous allurements came to be known as &;hermaphroditic&; and, by the later Middle Ages, to be equated with homosexuality.
 
At the margins of these developments, however, some authors began to validate fiction as a medium for truth and a source of legitimate enjoyment, while others began to explore and defend the pleasures of opulent rhetoric. Here David Rollo examines two such texts&;Alain de Lille&;s De planctu Naturae and Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun&;s Roman de la Rose&;arguing that their authors, in acknowledging the liberating potential of their irregular written orientations, brought about a nuanced reappraisal of homosexuality. Rollo concludes with a consideration of the influence of the latter on Chaucer&;s Pardoner&;s Prologue and Tale.

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David Rollo is associate professor of English, with a joint appointment in the Department of French and Italian, at the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books, most recently of Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226724611
ISBN 13 
9780226724614
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Anzahl der Seiten
250
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