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Subtitle: the confessional subject in medieval literature
By: Jerry Root.
Series: American university studies. Series II, Romance languages and literatures,; v. 225; American university studies.; v. 225.
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Confession in literature.; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Confession -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Other titles: Space to speak
Description: "This book explores the impact of confessional discourse on fourteenth-century European literature. The approach is interdisciplinary. The author studies examples of the "confessional" texts of Augustine and Abelard as well as the vernacular didactic literature on confession after 1215. This literature creates a new and more popular language of the self. The literary texts of Chaucer, Machaut, and Juan Ruiz clearly demonstrate the influence of a confessional "self" and use the language of confession to explore and construct the self as literary subject."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-262) and index.