Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Tempter's VoiceCondition: NewSubtitle: Language and the Fall in Medieval LiteratureAuthor: Eric JagerFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0801480361EAN: 9780801480362ISBN: 9780801480362Publisher: Cornell University PressGenre: HistoryTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Date: 10/12/2006Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 28gRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Tempter's Voice
Title: The Tempter's Voice
Subtitle: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10: 0801480361
EAN: 9780801480362
ISBN: 9780801480362
Genre: History
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 10/12/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Tempter's Voice : Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Medieval, History & Surveys / Medieval, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Eric Jager
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
