Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion
- Author / Editor
- Hayes, Mary
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 246 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Studies the tradition in which God speaks through humans and the proto-reformation implications of literary texts where the laity use speech usually reserved for priests. Chapter 4, "Cursed Speakers," considers the carter's and old woman's curses in FrT as parodies of Eucharistic prayers. Chapter 5, "Belly Speech," explores divine speech eminating from parts of the body other than the mouth, with discussion of the ailing man's fart in SumT as an instance of this non-vocal divine speech.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale