The Flight from Desire

Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6411-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer - writers profoundly influenced by Augustine and Ovid.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction Desire and Plenitude in Saint Augustine's Confessions 'Nullum Crimen Erit': Ovidian Craft and the Illusion of Mastery Abelard and Heloise: Conversion and Irreducible Desire Marie de France and Le Livre Ovide Le Roman de la Rose: 'All the Art of Love Enclosed' 'Simulacra Nostra': The Problem of Desire in Dante's Vita Nuova The Desolate Palace and the Solitary City: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Dante Afterward Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. A Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he is the former editor-in-chief of , and served as Professor and Chair
of English at the University of Buffalo. His previous books include , and . He has edited John Lydgate's and selections from Lydgate's and collections of essays dealing with love and marriage in the Middle Ages and the contexts of Middle English literature.