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Indecent exposure : gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature /
Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is prohibited in polite society: such are the elements that constitute what Nicole Nolan Sidhu calls a mediev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2016.
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Note on the Fabliaux
- Introduction. Obscenity in medieval culture and literature
- part I. Fourteen-century pioneers
- 1. Comedy and critique : obscenity and Langland's reproof of established powers in Piers Plowman
- 2. Chaucer's poetics of the obscene : classical narrative and fabliau politics in fragment one of the Canterbury tales and The legend of good women
- Part II. Fifteenth-century heirs
- 3. The henpecked subject : misogyny, poetry, and masculine community in the writing of John Lydgate
- 4. "Ryth Wikked" : Christian ethics and the unruly holy woman in the Book of Margery Kempe
- 5. Women's work, companionate marriage, and mass death in the biblical drama
- Conclusion. Lessons of the medieval obscene.