Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy
Author:   David Townsend (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   136
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
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Author:   David Townsend (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781009206884


ISBN 10:   1009206885
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction: The Subversive Silences of Medieval Latin Rhetoric; Passing over Queerness: Sexual Heterodoxy in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis; Reticence and Desire in the Devotional Works of Aelred of Rievaulx; The Deadly Play of Speech and Silence in Apollonius of Tyre; Hiding What Must Be Hidden: Skirting the Scandal of the Amazon Subject.

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David Townsend is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto. He is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (2011) and The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin (1998). He has also translated the Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon (second edition 2007). From 2000–2002 he was the founding director of the undergraduate program in Sexual Diversity Studies at University College in the University of Toronto.

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