- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Divining Creaturely Love -
2 Horsing Around -
3 Groping for an Opening -
4 Electric Caresses -
5 Between Perfection and Temptation -
6 The Biological Travesty -
7 “The Creature Whom We Love” -
8 The Love Tone -
9 “The Soft Word That Comes Deceiving” -
10 The Cuckold and the Cockatrice -
11 The Animal Bride and Horny Toads -
12 Unsettled Being -
13 Fickle Metaphysics -
14 Nymphomania and Faunication -
15 Senseless Arabesques -
16 The Goat in the Machine (A Reprise) - Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Series Information
“The Soft Word That Comes Deceiving”
“The Soft Word That Comes Deceiving”
Fournival’s Bestiary of Love
- Chapter:
- (p.55) 9 “The Soft Word That Comes Deceiving”
- Source:
- Creaturely Love
- Author(s):
Dominic Pettman
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
A discussion of a medieval text that uses animals to seduce (for the man), and also to resist seduction (for the woman).
Keywords: Animal studies, affect theory, love, continental philosophy, literary theory, media studies, posthumanism
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Divining Creaturely Love -
2 Horsing Around -
3 Groping for an Opening -
4 Electric Caresses -
5 Between Perfection and Temptation -
6 The Biological Travesty -
7 “The Creature Whom We Love” -
8 The Love Tone -
9 “The Soft Word That Comes Deceiving” -
10 The Cuckold and the Cockatrice -
11 The Animal Bride and Horny Toads -
12 Unsettled Being -
13 Fickle Metaphysics -
14 Nymphomania and Faunication -
15 Senseless Arabesques -
16 The Goat in the Machine (A Reprise) - Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Series Information