David Townsend (University of Toronto)

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric

Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy

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Produktbeschreibung

Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual identity long debated by historians. Townsend's engaging, accessible close readings of medieval Latin poetry, prose romance, and monastic devotional texts combine philological precision with insights drawn from queer theory.

Produktdetails

• Cultures of Latin
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 180g
• ISBN-13: 9781009206877
• ISBN-10: 1009206877
• Artikelnr.: 64362558

Autorenporträt

David Townsend is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto. He is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (2011) and The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin (1998). He has also translated the Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon (second edition 2007). From 2000¿2002 he was the founding director of the undergraduate program in Sexual Diversity Studies at University College in the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Subversive Silences of Medieval Latin Rhetoric
Passing over Queerness: Sexual Heterodoxy in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis
Reticence and Desire in the Devotional Works of Aelred of Rievaulx
The Deadly Play of Speech and Silence in Apollonius of Tyre
Hiding What Must Be Hidden: Skirting the Scandal of the Amazon Subject.