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The first study of modern and contemporary poetry's vibrant exchange with gossip. Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip's ostensible frivolity may seem at odds with common conceptions of poetry as serious, solitary expression. But in Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic relationship between gossip and American poetry, uncovering the unexpected ways that the history of the modern lyric intertwines with histories of sexuality in the twentieth century. Through nuanced readings of Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, and James Merrill--poets who famously absorbed and adapted the loose talk that swirled about them and their work--Bennett demonstrates how gossip became a vehicle for alternative modes of poetic practice. By attending to gossip's key role in modern and contemporary poetry, he recognizes the unpredictable ways that conventional understandings of the modern lyric poem have been shaped by, and afforded a uniquely suitable space for, the expression of queer sensibilities. Evincing an ear for good gossip, Bennett presents new and illuminating queer contexts for the influential poetry of these four culturally diverse poets. Word of Mouth establishes poetry as a neglected archive for our thinking about gossip and contributes a crucial queer perspective to current lyric studies and its renewed scholarly debate over the status and uses of the lyric genre.

Queer theory. --- Literature and society --- Gossip in literature. --- American poetry --- Gender identity --- History --- History and criticism. --- American poetry. --- Homosexuality and literature --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Privacy in literature. --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999. --- United States. --- Queer theory --- Gossip in literature

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This book suggests that gossip can be used as an interpretive key to understand more of early Christian identity and theology. Insights from the multi disciplinary field of gossip studies help to interpret what role gossip plays, especially in relation to how power and authority are distributed and promoted. A presentation of various texts in Greek, Hebrew and Latin shows that the relation between gossip and gender is complex: to gossip was typical for all women and risky for elite men who constantly had to defend their masculinity. Frequently the Pastoral Epistles connect gossip to false teaching, as an expression of deviance. On several occasions it is argued that various categories of women have to avoid gossip to be entrusted duties or responsibilities. "Old wives' tales" are associated with heresy, contrasted to godliness in which one had to train one self. Other passages clearly suggest that the false teaching resembles feminine gossip by use of metaphorical language: profane words will spread fast and uncontrolled like cancer; what the false teachers say is tickling in the ear, and their mouth must be stopped or silenced. The Pastoral Epistles employ terms drawn from the stereotype of gossip as rhetorical devices in order to undermine the masculinity and hence the authority, of the opponents.

Gossip --- Gossip in literature. --- Sex role --- Women --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Feminist criticism. --- Ancient Stereotypes. --- Feminism. --- Gender. --- Gossip. --- Pastoral Epistles.

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English literature --- Gossip --- Gossip in literature --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- -English literature --- -Gossip --- Communication --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- American literature --- English literature - History and criticism --- American fiction - History and criticism --- American fiction. --- English literature. --- Gossip in literature. --- Gossip. --- History and criticism.

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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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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.