Contents |
The medieval world of desire, discourse, reception, and writing: an introduction / James J. Paxson -- The judgment of Aeneas, the judgment of Paris, and the Roman d'Eneas / Sarah Spence -- Justifying love: the classical recusatio in medieval love literature / Joan G. Haahr -- Ovidius ethicus? Ovid and the medieval commentary tradition / Warren Ginsberg -- The transformation of Ovid in the twelfth-century Pamphilus / Anne Howland Schotter -- Discourse desired: desire, subjectivity, and mouvance in Can vei la lauzeta mover / Simon Gaunt -- Loc aizi/anima mundi: being, time, and desire in the troubadour love lyric / Charlotte Gross -- "Kar des dames est avenu/L'aventure": displacing the chivalric hero in Marie de France's Eliduc / Sandra Pierson Prior -- The talking wounded: desire, truth telling, and pain in the Lais of Marie de France / Robert W. Hanning -- Reading the language of love: Boccaccio's Filostrato as intermediary between the Commedia and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Nancy M. Reale -- Presence, absence, and difference: reception and deception in The franklin's tale / Cynthia A. Gravlee -- The conquest of Femenye: desire, power, and narrative in Chaucer's Knight's tale / Robert M. Stein -- The semiotics of character, Trope, and Troilus: the figural construction of the self and the discourse of desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / James J. Paxson. |