Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature

by Marcelle Thiébaux

Book Overview

A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing legacies. While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression in the literature of love. As Marcelle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080147969X
• ISBN13: 9780801479694
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher