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The Tempter´s Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature

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Description for The Tempter´s Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; DSB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 571.

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, ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801480362
SKU
V9780801480362
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99-14

About Eric Jager
Eric Jager is Professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of The Book of the Heart and The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France.

Reviews for The Tempter´s Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature
A very valuable addition to the many studies of both the Fall and how language can be manipulated to clarify or confuse a given issue.
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This book benefits from wide-ranging structuralist, poststructuralist, and feminist interest in Augustinian theories of language and the Fall.... Jager has identified and developed many important issues... and has offered many perceptive observations. ... Read more

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