Andreas Capellanus on love? : desire, seduction, and subversion in a twelfth-century Latin text / Kathleen Andersen-Wyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersen-Wyman, Kathleen.

Series:

Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andreas, Capellanus. De amore libri tres.

Andreas.

Physical Description:

viii, 271 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2007.

Summary:

This book argues that "De amore, the classic text by Andreas Capellanus, is not so much a work about courtly love, as it is an exegetical tool for undermining authorities and institutions.

Contents:

The Difficulty of Reading Andreas's Text 4

Readership and Historical Context 7

The Critics 18

My Approach 25

Note on Translations and Manuscript Edition 33

I Fish or Fowl (or, Is There a Genre in This Text?) 35

Transgressing the Boundaries of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric 36

Genre Trouble, Reading Instructions, and Other Formalities 40

Deconstructing Gender and Culture: A Reading of the First Five Chapters 48

II Repetition in Andreas's Text 67

How Repetition in Andreas's Text Subverts Social Hierarchies 70

How Repetition in Andreas's Text Subverts Religion 90

III On Clerical Intertexts and the Subversion of Seduction 113

Author/ity 116

Positions of Mastery and the Rhetoric of Eros 131

Seduction and Critical Distance 140

On Confessio and the Charm of Free Choice 149

IV Andreas and Walter 159

Andreas's Desire Uncovered 160

Identities 173

Readership 181

Feminine Desire and the Transgendered Agents of Andreas's Text 188

V Andreas on Women 201

On the Discourse of Misogyny 202

Women's Religion 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-265) and indexes.

ISBN:

1403967709

9781403967701

OCLC:

79004465

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