Title: Space to speke
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Confession, Confession in literature, History and criticism, History of doctrines, Literature, Medieval, Medieval Literature, Literature, medieval, history and criticism
Time periods: Middle Ages, 600-1500
LC classification: PN682.C58 R66 1997