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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookIn Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas—confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse—Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. She reads texts as central to Middle English studies as the "Parson's Tale," the "Miller's Tale," the Secretum Secretorum, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, including a gynecological treatise and a little-known fifteenth-century parody in which gossip and confession become one. As she does so she reveals a great deal about the medieval past—and perhaps just as much about the early development of the concealments that shape the present day.
Sodomy in literature. --- Gossip in literature. --- Secrecy in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Law, Medieval, in literature. --- Science, Medieval, in literature. --- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval. --- Women --- Women and literature --- English literature --- Medieval marriage customs and rites --- History --- History and criticism. --- England --- Social conditions
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In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century b.c. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues.From gossip to seductive persuasion, women's verbal strategies in the theater potentially subverted social and political hierarchy, McClure argues, whether the women characters were overtly or covertly duplicitous, in pursuit of adultery, or imitating male orators. Such characterization helped justify the regulation of women's speech in the democratic polis. The fact that women's verbal strategies were also used to portray male transvestites and manipulators, however, suggests that a greater threat of subversion lay among the spectators' own ranks, among men of uncertain birth and unscrupulous intent, such as demagogues skilled in the art of persuasion. Traditionally viewed as outsiders with ambiguous loyalties, deceitful and tireless in their pursuit of eros, women provided the dramatic poets with a vehicle for illustrating the dangerous consequences of political power placed in the wrong hands.
Greek drama --- Women and literature --- Greek language --- Sex role in literature. --- Speech in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- Spoken Greek. --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life. --- Adonia. --- Areopagus. --- Assembly. --- Bacchylides. --- Baubo. --- Boulē. --- Cimon. --- Cleisthenes. --- Cleomedes. --- Demeter. --- Demosthenes. --- Diodorus Siculus. --- Hesiod. --- Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. --- Lysias. --- Nicias. --- Nossis. --- Pharmaka. --- Rayor, D. --- Rothwell, K. --- Sappho. --- Sophocles. --- Thelgein. --- Theognis. --- Thesmophoria. --- Verbal genres: defined. --- actors. --- aischrologia. --- arrhēta. --- courtesans. --- curse tablets. --- demagogues. --- dokimasia. --- doxa. --- epitaphios. --- female choruses. --- gossip. --- gynaecocracy. --- invective against women. --- isonomia. --- isēgoria. --- kokuō. --- kosmēsis. --- kurios. --- lamentation. --- law courts. --- obscenity. --- ololugē. --- parrhēsia. --- partheneion. --- persuasion. --- prostitution. --- rhetoric. --- wedding ritual. --- women: adultery of.
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Droit médiéval dans la littérature --- Geheim in de literatuur --- Gossip in literature --- Huwelijk in de literatuur --- Huwelijk--Ritussen en gewoonten [Middeleeuwe] --- Kwaadsprekers in de literatuur --- Law [Medieval ] in literature --- Mariage dans la littérature --- Mariage--Rites et coutumes médiévales --- Marriage customs and rites [Medieval ] --- Marriage in literature --- Mauvaise langue dans la littérature --- Middeleeuwse wetenschappen in de literatuur --- Recht [Middeleeuws ] in de literatuur --- Science [Medieval ] in literature --- Science médiévale dans la littérature --- Secrecy in literature --- Secret dans la littérature --- Sodomie dans la littérature --- Sodomie in de literatuur --- Sodomy in literature --- Wetenschappen [Middeleeuwse ] in de literatuur --- Littérature anglaise --- Femmes --- Secret --- Mariage --- Commérage --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Angleterre (GB) --- Conditions sociales --- English literature --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- Women and literature --- England --- History --- To 1500 --- Women --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Social conditions --- 1066-1485 --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature.
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