R. Edwards 
The Flight from Desire [PDF ebook] 
Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer

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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.

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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

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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
Comparative Literature Studies, and served as Professor and Chair
of English at the University of Buffalo. His previous books include
Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity, The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in Chaucer’s Early Narratives, and
The Montecassino Passion and the Poetics of Medieval Drama. He has edited John Lydgate’s
Siege of Thebes and selections from Lydgate’s
Troy Book and collections of essays dealing with love and marriage in the Middle Ages and the contexts of Middle English literature.

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язык английский ● Формат PDF ● страницы 219 ● ISBN 9781137057013 ● Размер файла 3.1 MB ● издатель Palgrave Macmillan US ● город New York ● Страна US ● опубликованный 2016 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 4895490 ● Защита от копирования Социальный DRM

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