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- Title
The Text and the Body in Middle English Seduction Lyrics.
- Authors
Bayless, Martha
- Abstract
Middle English comic seduction lyrics illuminate the similarities between the comic process and the seduction process. Early in the process, language and abstraction are paramount, but events reveal that language is being used to cloak carnality, and the result of both the joke and the seduction is the exposure of bodily realities. The corpus of Middle English seduction lyrics, from “Joly Jankyn” to “I haue a newe garden,” illustrates the process of unveiling both meaning and body; in the inevitable comic incarnation it is always the woman who is left holding the baby.
- Subjects
MOCK-heroic literature; SONG lyrics; ENGLISH language; ABSTRACT thought; CORPORA
- Publication
Neophilologus, 2009, Vol 93, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0028-2677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11061-008-9126-8