Public Interiorities.
- Author / Editor
- Lawton, David.
Public Interiorities.
- Published
- Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 93-107.
- Description
- Theorizes "public interiorities" in terms of literary voice, Augustinian self-awareness, and Jürgen Habermus's conceptualization of the "public sphere," discussing them as expressions or perceptions of stances or outlooks that are neither universal nor individual but political and rhetorically value-laden. Comments on a range of late-medieval English texts, including a general claim that CT is a "vast anthology of diverse public interiorities" and, particularly, that PrT functions differently than Book 8 of Augustine's "Confessions" and "St Erkenwald" and voices the public interiority of antisemitism and "unending violence."
- Alternative Title
- A Handbook of Middle English Studies
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations