Ravishing Maidens

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Ravishing Maidens

Author	: Kathryn Gravdal
File Size	: 53,7 Mb
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 03 August 2010
ISBN	: 9780812200331
Pages	: 204 pages

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Ravishing Maidens by Kathryn Gravdal Book PDF Summary

In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: sometimes through humor and aestheticization, sometimes through the use of social and political themes, but especially through the romanticism of rape scenes.

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