Obscene Pedagogies - Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain Harris Carissa M.Pevná vazba
Obscene Pedagogies - Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain Harris Carissa M.Pevná vazba As anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature…
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Obscene Pedagogies - Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain Harris Carissa M.Pevná vazba
As anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence.
Harris argues instead for obscenity's usefulness in sexual education. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. She investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent.Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and