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Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric - Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Hardcover)
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Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric - Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Hardcover)
Series: Cultures of Latin
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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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