Courtly desire and medieval homophobia : the legitimation of sexual pleasure in Cleanness and its contexts /

In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasure as natural apart from procreative justification and thus represents a unique moment in Western culture. She argues that Cleanness...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keiser, Elizabeth B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Middle English
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Temas:
Purity (Middle English poem)
600-1500
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Pleasure > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian poetry, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature > England > History.
Courtly love in literature.
Homophobia in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Desire in literature.
Literature, Medieval > english
Plaisir > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Sexualité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Homosexualité et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire.
Amour courtois dans la littérature.
Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Homofobia > En la literatura
Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Homosexuality and literature.
Literature.
Christentum
Homosexualität
Höfische Kultur
Sexualverhalten
Religieuze gebruiken.
Erotiek.
Homoseksualiteit.
Middelengels.
Geschichte 600-1500.
Sodom (Extinct city) > In literature.
Sodome (Ville ancienne) > Dans la littérature.
England.
Israel > Sodom (Extinct city)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Narrative Theology of Cleanness and the Aesthetic Ethics of Thomas Aquinas
  • 2. Homophobic Wrath and Paradisal Pleasure
  • 3. Educating Love: Nature as Sexual Norm in Cleanness and Alain's Complaint
  • 4. The Sexual Ethics of Cleanness and Thomas Aquinas on Temperance
  • 5. Revising the Complaint: Desire in the Roman as Context for Cleanness
  • 6. Privileging the Feminine: Courtly Revisions of Masculinity
  • 7. Homosocial Bondings with God and Christ
  • 8. Theopoetic Coherence: Cleanness among Its Manuscript Companions.

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