Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy

ISBN-13: 9781009206884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

David (University of Toronto) Townsend

Opis

Traces the silences through which medieval literature spoke volumes about closeted sexual behavior and identities.

Spis treści

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.