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Author Coley, David K.

Title The wheel of language : representing speech in Middle English poetry, 1377-1422 / David K. Coley.

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Medieval studies
Medieval studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Thesis Ph. D. University of Maryland, College Park 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: "That whel wol cause another whel" -- Nominalism, speech, and power in "The manciple's tale" -- Saint Erkenwald: the sacrament of the altar and the persistence of the past -- Economies of speech and redemption in the works of Thomas Hoccleve -- Speech, rhetoric, and politics in Gower's Confessio Amantis -- Conclusion : the plowman's two voices.
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Subject English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Spoken English.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Oral interpretation of poetry.
Oral interpretation of poetry.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
Narration (Rhetoric)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Academic theses.
Electronic books.
History.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: 9780815632733 0815632738 (DLC) 2012006680
ISBN 0815651678 (electronic book)
9780815651673 (electronic book)
9780815632733 (cloth alkaline paper)
0815632738 (cloth alkaline paper)