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Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath : The Ethics of Erotic Violence /

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imper...

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Autor principal: Desmond, Marilynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; OVID'S ART and the WIFE of BATH; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: All under Correction; 1. Sexual Difference and the Ethics of Erotic Violence; 2. Ovid's Ars amatoria and the Wounds of Love; 3. Dominus/Ancilla: Epistolary Rhetoric and Erotic Violence in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise; 4. Tote Enclose: The Roman de Ia Rose and the Heterophallic Ethic; 5. The Vieille Daunce: The Wife of Bath and the Politics of Experience; 6. The Querelle de la Rose: Erotic Violence and the Ethics of Reading; Afterword; Abbreviations; Notes.