Queering medieval Latin rhetoric : silence, subversion, and sexual heterodoxy /

This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had, or maybe some had, and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, according to a rhetorical tradition reaching back to classical practice and theory. The strategy of preterition...

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Main Author:	Townsend, David, 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2023].
Series:	Cultures of Latin.
Subjects:	Latin literature, Medieval and modern > History and criticism. Homosexuality in literature. Desire in literature. Queer theory. Preterition (Rhetoric)