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Baika, Gabriella I.

The rose and geryon : the poetics of fraud and violence in Jean de Meun and Dante / Gabriella I. Baika. - Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- The verbal sin as a cultural construct -- From Jean de Meun's multidiscursive dispersal to Dante's system of sins -- Lingua dolosa, "the guileful tongue": speaking under the sign of fraud -- Blasphemy and the poetics of violence -- Conclusion.



ISBN: 9780813226101

Subjects--Personal Names:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Ethics.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --
Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305 --Ethics.
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230 --

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethics in literature.
Vices in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Dante Alighieri--1265-1321--Ethics.
Dante Alighieri--1265-1321.--Divina commedia.
Guillaume--de Lorris--active 1230.--Roman de la rose.
Jean--de Meun--approximately 1240-approximately 1305--Ethics.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Medieval.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: PQ1528 / .R674 2014