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Record Number:
9321
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Townsend , David.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Sex and the Single Amazon in Twelfth-Century Latin Epic
Source:
The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin. Edited by David Townsend and Andrew Taylor. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pages 136 - 155.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Amazons
Body
Gautier of Chatillon, Poet- Alexandreis
Gender in Literature
Latin Literature
Literature- Verse
Sexuality in Literature
Talestris (Literary Figure)
Women in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
12
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Abstract:
Related Resources:
In Sex and the Single Amazon in Twelfth-Century Latin Epic", David Townsend offers a queer (and Lacanian) reading of Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis(of which he has also published a highly readable and highly acclaimed verse translation). Reading very c
Author's Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1998.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0812234405