The Flight from Desire
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6411-3 (ISBN)
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.
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
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.1.2008 |
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Reihe/Serie | The New Middle Ages |
Zusatzinfo | XI, 219 p. |
Verlagsort | Gordonsville |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4039-6411-4 / 1403964114 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4039-6411-3 / 9781403964113 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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