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100 1 $aTinkle, Theresa Lynn,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95054305
245 10 $aMedieval Venuses and Cupids :$bsexuality, hermeneutics, and English poetry /$cTheresa Tinkle.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c1996.
300 $a294 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aFigurae
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tBeyond Binary Thinking: The Two, Three, or Ten Loves --$gCh. 2.$tSemiotic Nomads --$gCh. 3.$tAmbiguous Signs, Contingent Truths --$gCh. 4.$tFrom Latin to Vernacular: On Poetry and Other Sensual Pleasures --$gCh. 5.$tMyths of a Venereal Nature --$gCh. 6.$tUnnatural Acts --$gCh. 7.$tRemedia Amoris --$gCh. 8.$tVenus, Cupid, and English Poetry.
520 $aMedieval Venuses and Cupids analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love.
520 8 $aWhereas existing studies of Venus and Cupid contend that they always and everywhere represent two loves (good and evil), the author argues that medieval discourses actually promulgate diverse, multiple, and often contradictory meanings for the deities.
520 8 $aVenus is understood simultaneously as a planet, as a historical woman (a prostitute, a lustful woman, or a queen), and as a symbol of philosophical or spiritual truths (the dangers of cupidity, the joys of sexual pleasure, or the bonds of love that unify the cosmos). Cupid similarly is depicted as both male and female, blind and sighted, child and adult, playful and sinister, angelic and demonic.
520 8 $a. The book establishes the range of meanings bestowed on the deities through the later Middle Ages, and draws on feminist and cultural theories to offer new models for interpreting both academic Latin discourses and vernacular poetry. Since one of the deities' most prominent roles in later Middle English literature is that of sponsoring poetry, this study finally focuses on a Chaucerian poetics of Venus and Cupid.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103205
650 0 $aSex in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120618
650 0 $aPoetry, Medieval$xRoman influences.
600 00 $aVenus$c(Roman deity)$xIn literature.
600 00 $aCupid$c(Roman deity)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$xRoman influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103147
650 0 $aLove in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078534
650 0 $aMyth in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089366
650 0 $aHermeneutics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85060402
830 0 $aFigurae (Stanford, Calif.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93028278
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR317.S48$iT56 1996