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9780801480362

The Tempter's Voice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801480362

  • ISBN10:

    0801480361

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-10-30
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

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, Jag

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Note on Biblical Citations xvii
Introduction 1(22)
Part One Augustine's Garden
1 The School of Paradise
23(28)
2 The Genesis of Hermeneutics
51(48)
3 The Garden of Eloquence
99(46)
Part Two The Medieval Garden
4 The Old English Epic of the Fall
145(46)
5 The Seducer and the Daughter of Eve
191(50)
6 The Carnal Letter in Chaucer's Earthly Paradise
241(58)
Epilogue Signs of the Fall: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernism 299(8)
Bibliography 307(18)
Index 325

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