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James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds.
Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer.
Published Selinsgrove: Susqehanna U.P., 1998.
ISBN 1575910136;
ISBN-13 9781575910130.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 161x240x19mm.
Page count: 239pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy’s dustjacket is a bit grubby, somewhat rubbed and rumpled on its edges and corners; the boards are starting to warp a little, but in other respects the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £14.50
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Weight without packaging: 549g.

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Contents:
Paxson, The medieval world of desire, discourse, reception & writing — an intro.;
Spence, Judgment of Aeneas, judgment of Paris & the Roman d'Eneas;
Haahr, The classical recusatio in medieval love literature;
Ginsberg, Ovid & the medieval commentary tradition;
Schotter, Transformaton of Ovid in the 12th‑c. Pamphilus;
Gaunt, Desire, subjectivity & mouvance in Can vei la lauzeta mover;
Gross, Being, time & desire in the troubadour love lyric;
Prior, Displacing the chivalric hero in Marie de France’s Eliduc;
Hanning, Desire, truth telling & pain in the Lais of Marie de France;
Reale, Boccaccio’s Filostrato as intermediary between the Commedia & Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde;
Gravlee, Reception & deception in the Franklin’s Tale;
Stein, Desire, power & narrative in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale;
Paxson, Figural construction of the self & discourse of desire in Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: Authors; Subjects.

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