Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force.

Autorentext
NOAH D. GUYNN is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is currently preparing a book on the role of ethics in medieval and early modern farce.

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Rhetoric, Evil, and Privation: From Augustine to the "Persecuting Society" Sodomy, Courtly Love, and the Birth of Romance: Le roman d'Eneas Allegory and Perversion in Alan of Lille's De planctu Naturae Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose