‘All toragged and torent’: Unity and Fragmentation in Jack and His Stepdame

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Bower, Hannah
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Medium Aevum
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0025-8385
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Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
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Bower, H. ‘All toragged and torent’: Unity and Fragmentation in Jack and His Stepdame. Medium Aevum https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.81941
Abstract
Through a close analysis of imagery of tearing, ripping, and splitting, this essay argues for a lively but intricate poetics of unity and fragmentation in Jack and His Stepdame, an understudied fifteenth-century comic poem too easily oversimplified as sensational, childish, and repetitive.
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Churchill College Junior Research Fellowship
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2100-01-01
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.81941
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334523
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