The flight from desire : Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer / Robert R. Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Robert, 1947-

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 219 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

This book seeks to reformulate the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Starting from the traditions initiated by Augustine's "Confessions and Ovid's A"rs Amatoria and "Remedia Amoris, it resituates the love doctrine of medieval texts in a literary dialectic with desire--including fresh readings of Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. In these writers, desire emerges as both a topic capable of sustained moral reflection and a source for private and social identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-211) and index.

ISBN:

1403964114

OCLC:

61879827

Publisher Number:

9781403964113

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