Focusing on the Incarnation -- the only dogma original to
Christianity, in which God becomes man and history -- this book
offers a wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated investigation
of the relationship between Christian discourse and literature from
Roman antiquity to the fourteenth century through a look at texts
by Cicero, Quintilian, Martianus Capella, Tertullian, Saint
Augustine, Alain of Lille, Guillaume de Machaut, and others.
Alexandre Leupin asks if it is possible to go beyond the
dialectics of the Incarnated God and the Devil without harking back
to the beautiful but partially obsolete truths of paganism and
sophistry. Employing a method inspired by psychoanalysis, Leupin
repudiates the sophistry and relativism of postmodern theory while
calling into question old commonplaces that have been invalidated
by modernity. He does so by attending to the larger and deeper
structures hidden within the discourses of theology, rhetoric,
literature, and psychoanalysis. The result is an innovative
perspective on the Middle Ages, an original and promising view of
the problems of Western literature in relation to theology and
rhetoric.
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