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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Theresa Tinkle
• Editore: Stanford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.1996
• EAN: 9780804725156
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2515-6
• Pagine: 296
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 617 g
• Serie: Figurae: Reading Medieval Cult
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata