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Categories: Literary Criticism
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The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic
Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art
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Authors: Elena V. Shabliy
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-27 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries. This book demonstrates the widesp
The Consummate Virgin
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Pages: 282
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Categories: Literary Criticism
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This book is a study of female virginity loss and its representations in popular Anglophone literatures. It explores dominant cultural narratives around what ma
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Language: en
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Authors: Kathleen Coyne Kelly
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Weste
Chaucerian Ecopoetics
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Authors: Shawn Normandin
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Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aestheti