{"product_id":"fiction-and-incarnation-rhetoric-theology-and-literature-in-the-middle-ages-paperback-softback-9780816637256","title":"Fiction and Incarnation; Rhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816637256","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFiction and Incarnation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexandre Leupin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816637256\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 December 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 14.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.382 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fresh look at the relationship between theology and rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the Incarnation-the only dogma original to Christianity, in which God becomes man and history-this book offers a wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated investigation of the relationship between Christian discourse and literature from Roman antiquity to the fourteenth century through a look at texts by Cicero, Quintilian, Martianus Capella, Tertullian, Saint Augustine, Alain of Lille, Guillaume de Machaut, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexandre Leupin asks if it is possible to go beyond the dialectics of the Incarnated God and the Devil without harking back to the beautiful but partially obsolete truths of paganism and sophistry. Employing a method inspired by psychoanalysis, Leupin repudiates the sophistry and relativism of postmodern theory while calling into question old commonplaces that have been invalidated by modernity. He does so by attending to the larger and deeper structures hidden within the discourses of theology, rhetoric, literature, and psychoanalysis. The result is an innovative perspective on the Middle Ages, an original and promising view of the problems of Western literature in relation to theology and rhetoric. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexandre Leupin is Gregorie Professor in French studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of many books, including, in English translation, Barbarolexis: Medieval Literature and Sexuality (1989).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Laatsch is a Ph.D. candidate in the French department of Louisiana State University.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570066321688,"sku":"9780816637256","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fiction-and-incarnation-rhetoric-theology-and-literature-in-the-middle-ages-paperback-softback-9780816637256","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}