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

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dc.contributor.authorSpyra, Piotr
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-25T08:48:25Z
dc.date.available2017-08-25T08:48:25Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe 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 manuscriptpl_PL
dc.identifier.citationStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.4 (2012), pp. 133-145pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn0081-6272
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/19170
dc.language.isoengpl_PL
dc.publisherAdam Mickiewicz Universitypl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.titleThe God of the Middle English "Cleanness" and his erotic exhortations of puritypl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2012 vol. 47.4