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These essays treat the use of Ovidian themes, texts and tropes in medieval Latin, Old French and in the writings of Boccaccio and Chaucer. They address the social and rhetorical construction of desire in amatory literature while they investigate the usage and value of contemporary critical theory.

Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid

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      Publisher: Associated University Presses
      Publication Date: 01/12/1998
      ISBN13: 9781575910130, 978-1575910130
      ISBN10: 1575910136

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      Book Synopsis
      These essays treat the use of Ovidian themes, texts and tropes in medieval Latin, Old French and in the writings of Boccaccio and Chaucer. They address the social and rhetorical construction of desire in amatory literature while they investigate the usage and value of contemporary critical theory.

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