Lies, slander, and obscenity in medieval English literature pastoral rhetoric and the deviant speaker
Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It shows how attempts were made to portray some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive, la...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1997
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature
31 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1 The pastoral movement and deviant speech: major texts 2 The lies of the Fall, the tongues of Pentecost: typing and converting the deviant speaker 3 Exemplifying deviant speech: murmur in Patience 4 Confessing the deviant speaker: verbal deception in the Confessio Amantis 5 Reforming deviant social practices: turpiloquium/scurrilitas in the B Version of Piers Plowman 6 Restraining the deviant speaker: Chaucer's Manciple and Parson