Offers an approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, the author considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force
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Offers an approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, the author considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index
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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