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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 Through Chaucer

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

    Number of Pages: 239

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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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.

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