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Article: Bodily peril: Sexuality and the subversion of order in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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One of the most celebrated and most controversial portions of Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la Rose is the sermon preached by Nature's priest Genius to the troops of Love. (1) This remarkable passage is not Genius's first intervention in the poem. Though modern critical readings of Genius tend to focus on the sermon alone, he is introduced into the poem some three thousand lines earlier, at the same time as Nature herself, and as a prelude to Nature's long 'confession' her priest delivers a diatribe of his own, focusing on the machinations of a woman who cajoles her husband into revealing his involvement in criminal or otherwise suspect activities. (2) Genius ...
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