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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784156003321

Autore

Guynn Noah D

Titolo

Allegory and sexual ethics in the High Middle Ages [[electronic resource] /] / Noah D. Guynn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36263-8

9786611362638

0-230-60366-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

The new Middle Ages

Disciplina

841/.1

Soggetti

Allegory

Sexual ethics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Rhetoric, Evil, and Privation: From Augustine to the "Persecuting Society"; 2 Sodomy, Courtly Love, and the Birth of Romance: Le Roman d'Eneas; 3 Allegory and Perversion in Alan of Lille's De Planctu Naturae; 4 Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force.