The unspeakable, gender and sexuality in medieval literature, 1000-1400 /
An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
D.S. Brewer
2017
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| Col·lecció: | Gender in the Middle Ages ;
v. 12. |
| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1pwt53b |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction : words and other fragments
- Speaking up and shutting up : expression and suppression in the Old English Mary of Egypt and Ancrene Wisse
- What comes unnaturally : unspeakable acts
- Crying wolf : gender and exile in Bisclavret and Wulf and Eadwacer
- Taking the words out of her mouth : glossing glossectomy in Tales of Philomela
- Conclusion : after words.