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The Flight from Desire

Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer
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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.

Author Biography:

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 Theb
Release date NZ
January 4th, 2008
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
  • Undergraduate
Illustrations
XI, 219 p.
Pages
219
Dimensions
140x216x19
ISBN-13
9781403964113
Product ID
3169621

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