CLAUSTROPHILIA: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature by Cary Howie, to be published in the New Middle Ages series. Here's the description:
Give that author a golden tiny shriner.
Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude.
Give that author a golden tiny shriner.
I like the title too. If someone googles Cary Howie and eventually ends up here, I'd like to know a little bit more about the book. Mainly, right now anyhow, I'm befuddled about the relationship between "enclosures" (which makes me think of cloisters, of course--like like this work--but also of prison writing) and "poetics."
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