Medieval Venuses and Cupids - Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry

"By using feminist and cultural theories, this revisionist approach attempts to correct the previous studies that contend that Venus and Cupid 'always and everywhere represent two loves (good and evil).' . . . This book is more accessible than one might suppose. . . . A readable book with helpful (as opposed to overwhelming) notes."--Choice
"This handsome work provides impetus for further thought concerning these two deities as they appear throughout the Middle English canon and should become a major component of Medieval literary criticism."--South Atlantic Review

About the author

Terry Tinkle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

Summary

The author analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth, and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love.

Product details

• Authors: Theresa Tinkle
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1996
• EAN: 9780804725156
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2515-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Cult
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies