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The rose and geryon

Baika, Gabriella I.

The rose and geryon the poetics of fraud and violence in Jean de Meun and Dante / [electronic resource] : Gabriella I. Baika. - Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Ethics.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305 --Ethics.
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.


Ethics in literature.
Vices in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PQ1528 / .B25 2014