Justifying Love: The Classical 'Rucusatio' in Medieval Love Literature
- Author / Editor
- Haahr, Joan G.
Justifying Love: The Classical 'Rucusatio' in Medieval Love Literature
- Published
- James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 39-61.
- Description
- Focuses on "recusatio" ("'refusal' to obey") as a rhetorical device used in classical tradition to justify the "poetic legitimacy of amatory subjects" and broadened in medieval tradition to enable "new types of courtly literature emphasizing private and secular experience." Discusses examples in works by Propertius, Ovid, troubadour poets, Chrétien de Troyes, Boccaccio, and Chaucer in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations