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Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual identity long debated by historians. Townsend's engaging, accessible close readings of medieval Latin poetry, prose romance, and monastic devotional texts combine philological precision with insights drawn from queer theory.

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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.

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 1/5/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009206877, 978-1009206877
      ISBN10: 1009206877
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      Literary studies: general Literary theory Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual identity long debated by historians. Townsend's engaging, accessible close readings of medieval Latin poetry, prose romance, and monastic devotional texts combine philological precision with insights drawn from queer theory.

      Table of Contents
      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.

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