The tempter's voice: language and the fall in medieval literature
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 u...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
Beschreibung: | XVII, 336 S. Ill. |
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title_auth | The tempter's voice language and the fall in medieval literature |
title_exact_search | The tempter's voice language and the fall in medieval literature |
title_full | The tempter's voice language and the fall in medieval literature Eric Jager |
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title_short | The tempter's voice |
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topic | Bible. O.T. Genesis III Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Early church, ca. 30-600 Bible. O.T. Genesis III Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Chute de l'homme dans la littérature Letterkunde gtt Littérature médiévale - Histoire et critique Zondeval gtt Geschichte Literatur Fall of man in literature Literature, Medieval History and criticism Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Erbsünde (DE-588)4015122-0 gnd Sündenfall Motiv (DE-588)4183980-8 gnd Sündenfall (DE-588)4183979-1 gnd |
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