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Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker Book

Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
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 explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the , Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker has a rating of 3 stars
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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 explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the , Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
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  • Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
  • Written by author Edwin D. Craun
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, June 1997
  • 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 explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the
  • Examines clerical discourse in Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the 'Patience' poet.
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Acknowledgments
Note on quotations and translations
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Introduction1
1The pastoral movement and deviant speech: major texts10
2The lies of the Fall, the tongues of Pentecost: typing and converting the deviant speaker25
3Exemplifying deviant speech: murmur in Patience73
4Confessing the deviant speaker: verbal deception in the Confessio Amantis113
5Reforming deviant social practices: turpiloquium/scurrilitas in the B Version of Piers Plowman157
6Restraining the deviant speaker: Chaucer's Manciple and Parson187
Bibliography231
Index250


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