The Tempter's Voice : : Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Jager, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 7 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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