The rose and geryon the poetics of fraud and violence in Jean de Meun and Dante - Baika, Gabriella I. (The Catholic University of America Press, 2014)
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