Disciplining the Tongue: Speech and Emotion in Later Middle English Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Strub, Spencer.
Disciplining the Tongue: Speech and Emotion in Later Middle English Poetry.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A82.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cr3q8b9; accessed August 18, 2025.
- Physical Description
- iii, 142 pp.
- Description
- Explores speech in late medieval English "literature and prescriptive religious writing," focusing on how "inward feelings [are] realized only in intersubjective exchange." Includes discussion of, among others, "Piers Plowman," "Mum and the Sothsegger," and CT, In the latter, "Chaucer makes mirth, comfort, and pleasure––words that elsewhere describe the act of prayer––the emotional norm that governs the telling of the Canterbury Tales: sacred pleasure becomes the pleasure of idle fiction."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Language and Word Studies