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Ovid's art and the Wife of Bath : the ethics of erotic violence / Marilynn Desmond

Author
Desmond, Marilynn, 1952-
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Sexual difference and the ethics of erotic violence -- Ovid's Ars amatoria and the wounds of love -- Dominus/ancilla : epistolary rhetoric and erotic violence in the letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Tote enclose : the Roman de la rose and the heterophallic ethic -- The Vieille daunce : the Wife of Bath and the politics of experience -- The Querelle de la rose : erotic violence and the ethics of reading.
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ISBN
0801443792 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801473179 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-199) and index.
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