The Tempter's Voice : : Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature / / Eric Jager.
Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors u...
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Jager, Eric, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Tempter's Voice : Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature / Eric Jager. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2006 1 online resource (352 p.) : 7 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON BIBLICAL CITATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One. Augustine's Garden -- 1. The School of Paradise -- 2. The Genesis of Hermeneutics -- 3. The Garden of Eloquence -- Part Two. The Medieval Garden -- 4. The Old English Epic of the Fall -- 5. The Seducer and the Daughter of Eve -- 6. The Carnal Letter in Chaucer's Earthly Paradise -- Epilogue. Signs of the Fall: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernism -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought-including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics, and gender relations. Jager explores the Fall's meaning for clergy and laity, nobles and commoners, men and women.Among the works Jager discusses are texts by Ambrose, Augustine, the early Christian poet Avitus, and scholastic authors; Old English biblical epics; Middle English spiritual writings; French courtesy books; and the poetry of Dante and Chaucer. Examples from the visual arts are included as well. Jager links medieval interpretations of the Fall to underlying cultural anxieties about the ambiguity of the sign, the instability of oral tradition, the pleasure of the text, and the many rhetorical guises of the tempter's voice. He also assesses the modern and postmodern legacy of the Fall, showing how this myth continues to embody central ideas concerning language.The Tempter's Voice will be essential reading for scholars and students in such fields as medieval studies, literary theory, gender theory, comparative literature, cultural history, and the history of religion. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Fall of man in literature. Literature, Medieval History and criticism. Literary Studies. Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Religious Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801480362 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721823 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721823 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721823/original |
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