Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy
Published on 14. December 2022
978-1-009-20685-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Cambridge
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978-1-009-20685-3 (9781009206853)
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Introduction: The Subversive Silences of Medieval Latin Rhetoric; Passing over Queerness: Sexual Heterodoxy in Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis; Reticence and Desire in the Devotional Works of Aelred of Rievaulx; The Deadly Play of Speech and Silence in Apollonius of Tyre; Hiding What Must Be Hidden: Skirting the Scandal of the Amazon Subject.
