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• Author/Creator:Townsend, David, 1955- author.
  
• Title:Queering medieval Latin rhetoric : silence, subversion, and sexual heterodoxy / David Townsend, University of Toronto.
  
• ISBN:9781009206860 (ebook)
  9781009206884 (hardback)
  9781009206877 (paperback)
  
• Publication:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 120 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary: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 calls attention to something scandalous precisely by claiming to pass over it. Because it gestures toward what's missing from the text itself, it epitomizes a destabilizing reliance on audience reaction that informs the whole of classical rhetoric's technology of persuasion. Medieval Latin preterition invites our growing awareness, when we attend to it closely, that silence is not single, but that silences are multiple. Their multiplicity consists not in what preterition is, but in what it does. Preterition's multiple silences enabled subversive interpretations by individuals and communities marginalized under dominant regimes of sexuality-as they still do today.
  
• Variant and related titles:Cambridge core frontlist 2023.
  
• Other formats:Print version:
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Cultures of Latin
  
• Subjects:Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.
  Homosexuality in literature.
  Desire in literature.
  Queer theory.
  Preterition (Rhetoric)