- 226 pages
- English
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Desire in Saint Augustine’s Confessions
- 2. “Nullum crimen erit”: Ovidian Craft and the Illusion of Mastery
- 3. Abelard and Heloise: Conversion and Irreducible Desire
- 4. Marie de France and Le livre Ovide
- 5. Rewriting Desire in the Roman de la Rose
- 6. “Simulacra nostra”: The Problem of Desire in Dante’s Vita nuova
- 7. The Desolate Palace and the Solitary City: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Dante
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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