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

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Bower, Hannah 

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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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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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Churchill College Junior Research Fellowship