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  1. Courtly desire and medieval homophobia
    the legitimation of sexual pleasure in cleanness and its contexts
    Autor*in: Keiser, Elizabeth B.
    Erschienen: 1997
    Verlag:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven [u.a.]

    In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasure as natural apart from procreative justification and thus represents a unique... mehr

    Standort:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signatur:
    98 A 11726
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

    Standort:
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    Signatur:
    A 1999/2441
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

    Standort:
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Signatur:
    48.714
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasure as natural apart from procreative justification and thus represents a unique moment in western culture. She argues that Cleanness sacralizes heterosexual erotic play while condemning male homosexual love as profaning the Creator`s workmanship and his nature. To situate the poem in the context of medieval homophobic constructions of nature as the basis of sexual norms, this book compares Cleanness`s concepts of sexual desire and deviance with those of its literary and theological antecedents, including Thomas Aquinas`s discourse on temperance, Alain de Lille`s Complaint of Nature, and Jean de Meun`s Romance of the Rose. Cleanness is shown to be unconventionally affirmative of loveplay and other refinements of courtly artifice. Keiser explores the broad intellectual and social consequences of this celebration of late medieval masculine ideals and analyzes how the poet`s class-specific aesthetic sensibility underlies a theologically and ethically flawed revisionist history of the biblical Creator`s love affair with the creation. These limitations shed interesting light on Cleanness`s relation to its theologically more complex and structurally more sophisticated companion poems-Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Pearl. Elizabeth B. Keiser is Dana Professor of English at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina.

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 0300069235
    Schlagworte: Mittelenglisch; Christliche Lyrik; Purity <Bibeldichtung>; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Erotik <Motiv>;
    Weitere Schlagworte: Purity (Middle English poem); Array; Array; Array; Array; Array; Array; Courtly love in literature; Homophobia in literature; Gay men in literature; Desire in literature
    Umfang: X, 299 S, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index