The God of the Middle English "Cleanness" and his erotic exhortations of purity

dc.contributor.author	Spyra, Piotr
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-25T08:48:25Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-25T08:48:25Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	The Middle English Cleanness is a poem unique in the medieval context in that it couples its homophobic discourse with a powerful vindication of sexual pleasure and its role in relationships without referring to the procreative telos of marriage. In fact, Cleanness does not even stress that the only proper arena for erotic desire is the marriage bed, with the narrator emphasising the mutuality of pleasure instead. The article investigates the text’s rhetorical interplay between the vilification of homosexuals and the divine endorsement of heterosexual lovemaking. Going beyond the established critical consensus on the issue, it argues that the contrast between the two serves not only to allow the author to vent his homophobic prejudice but also connects with the epistemological concerns of Pearl, the text that precedes Cleanness in the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.4 (2012), pp. 133-145	pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn	0081-6272
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19170
dc.language.iso	eng	pl_PL
dc.publisher	Adam Mickiewicz University	pl_PL
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl_PL
dc.title	The God of the Middle English "Cleanness" and his erotic exhortations of purity	pl_PL
dc.type	Artykuł	pl_PL

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