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Könyv Kiss My Relics David Rollo

Kiss My Relics

Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages

Szerző: David Rollo
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten alacsony példányszámban
Küldés 13-18 napon belül
20 425 Ft
Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare...

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Szerző
David Rollo
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2011
oldal
240
EAN
9780226724614
ISBN
0226724611
Enbook ID
04548850
Kiadó
The University of Chicago Press
Súly
499
Méretek
152 x 229 x 23

Teljes leírás

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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