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The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer - The New Middle Ages R. Edwards 2008 edition
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer - The New Middle Ages
R. Edwards
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.
256 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 4, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9781403964113 |
| Publishers | Palgrave USA |
| Pages | 219 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 19 mm · 381 g |
| Language | English |