Polemic : Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse - Almut Suerbaum
eTextbook alternate format product

Instant online reading.
Don't wait for delivery!

Polemic

Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse

By: Almut Suerbaum, George Southcombe

Paperback | 14 October 2024

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $82.99

$66.25

20%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $16.56 with

 or 

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then 'polemic' is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval as well as early modern culture in order to challenge stubborn assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus; and that literary discourse is by nature 'eirenic'. Instead, the volume shows more clearly the continuities and discontinuities, especially how medieval discourse on the sins of the tongue continued into early modern discussion; how popular and influential medieval genres such as sermons and hagiography dealt with potentially heterodox positions; and the role of literary, especially fictional, debate in developing modes of articulating discord, as well as demonstrating polemic in action in political and ecclesiastical debate. Within this historical context, the position of early modern debates as part of a more general culture of articulating discord becomes more clearly visible. The structure of the volume moves from an internal textual focus, where the nature of polemic can be debated, through a middle section where these concerns are also played out in social practice, to a more historical group investigating applied polemic. In this way a more nuanced view is provided of the meaning, role, and effect of 'polemic' both broadly across time and space, and more narrowly within specific circumstances.

More in History & Criticism of Literature

Gutsy Girls : Love, Poetry and Sisterhood - Josie McSkimming
The Ghost Forest : New and Selected Poems - Kimiko Hahn
Romeo and Juliet : No Fear Shakespeare Series - William Shakespeare

RRP $12.99

$10.95

16%
OFF
Macbeth : No Fear Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

RRP $12.99

$10.95

16%
OFF
Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life : Our July Book of the Month - Anna Funder
Normal Women : 900 Years Of Making History - Philippa Gregory
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

$16.99

Mrs Dalloway : Penguin Modern Classics - Virginia Woolf
The Idiot : Penguin Classics - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Medea and Other Plays : Penguin Classics - Euripides

RRP $17.99

$14.25

21%
OFF
Wuthering Heights : Penguin Classics - Emily Bronte