Edwin David Craun - Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature [1997][A]seeders: 1
leechers: 0
Edwin David Craun - Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature [1997][A] (Size: 6.67 MB)
Description
Product Details
Book Title: Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Book Author: Edwin David Craun (Author) Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Book 31) Hardcover: 271 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 28, 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 052149690X ISBN-13: 978-0521496902 Book Description 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 "Patience" poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive--as lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue.  Review "...Craun's analysis provides a model of how reinscribing the literary within its appropriate traditions, engaging the rhetorical backgrounds that fourteenth-century poets would have expected their readers to share, helps to bring poetry to life." Kathryn L. Lynch, Speculum--A Journal of Medieval Studies Sharing WidgetAll Comments |
Not exactly a book you would find on the best sellers list and at over $100 for a hard cover it would probably take up permanent residence on a dusty shelf in the majority of book retailers.
Thank you for taking the time to track this down and upload it Anette14.