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Magister Amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics

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Magister Amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics - Minnis, Alastair
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The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller--largely due to its robust treatment of "natural" sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in which Jean de Meun, in imitation of Ovid, assumed the mock- magisterium (or mastership) of love. Alastair J. Minnis considers allegorical versus literalistic expression in the poem, Jean's provocative use of plain and sometimes obscene language, the challenge of its homosocial and perhaps even homoerotic constructions, and the problematic translation of literary authority from ...

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Magister Amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics 2001, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198187547

Hardcover