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Baika, Gabriella I.

The rose and geryon : the poetics of fraud and violence in Jean de Meun and Dante / Gabriella I. Baika. - Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 2014. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The verbal sin as a cultural construct -- From Jean de Meun's multidiscursive dispersal to Dante's system of sins -- Lingua dolosa, "the guileful tongue": speaking under the sign of fraud -- Blasphemy and the poetics of violence -- Conclusion.

ISBN: 9780813226101 (electronic bk.) 0813226104 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper)

Source: 22573/ctt85q2mv JSTOR

Subjects--Personal Names:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Ethics.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305 --Ethics.
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
Roman de la rose (Guillaume, de Lorris)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethics in literature.
Vices in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Morale dans la littérature.
Vices dans la littérature.
Langage et langues dans la littérature.
Rhétorique médiévale.
Littérature médiévale--Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--General.
POETRY--Continental European.
Ethics.
Ethics in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Vices in literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PQ1528 / .B25 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 841/.1