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.

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Blud, Victoria (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer 2017
Серии:Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 12.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1pwt53b
Оглавление:
  • 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.