The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature - Couverture rigide

Jager, Eric

 
9780801427534: The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature
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ISBN 10 : 0801427533 ISBN 13 : 9780801427534
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought--including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics, and gender relations. Jager explores the Fall's meaning for clergy and laity, nobles and commoners, men and women.Among the works Jager discusses are texts by Ambrose, Augustine, the early Christian poet Avitus, and scholastic authors; Old English biblical epics; Middle English spiritual writings; French courtesy books; and the poetry of Dante and Chaucer. Examples from the visual arts are included as well. Jager links medieval interpretations of the Fall to underlying cultural anxieties about the ambiguity of the sign, the instability of oral tradition, the pleasure of the text, and the many rhetorical guises of the tempter's voice. He also assesses the modern and postmodern legacy of the Fall, showing how this myth continues to embody central ideas concerning language.The Tempter's Voice will be essential reading for scholars and students in such fields as medieval studies, literary theory, gender theory, comparative literature, cultural history, and the history of religion.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eric Jager is Professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of The Book of the Heart and The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801427533
ISBN 13 
9780801427534
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780801480362: The Tempter's Voice: Language And the Fall in Medieval Literature

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ISBN 10 :  0801480361 ISBN 13 :  9780801480362
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2006
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