Disputing Good Bishop's English: Martin Marprelate and the Voice of Menippean Opposition.
This essay describes the undocumented Menippean influence in the Marprelate tracts in an effort to refine prevailing critical orthodoxies about the work. Martin Marprelate is the pseudonym of a syndicate of writers that called for the replacement of England's episcopacy with a decentralized ecclesio...
| Publicado en: | Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 177 - 201 |
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University of Texas Press
Summer2008
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| Sumario: | This essay describes the undocumented Menippean influence in the Marprelate tracts in an effort to refine prevailing critical orthodoxies about the work. Martin Marprelate is the pseudonym of a syndicate of writers that called for the replacement of England's episcopacy with a decentralized ecclesiology based on local church discipline. The two key features of Menippean discourse are the confrontational dialogue and scandal scene. The seamless integration of written and oral utterance is one of the most peculiar aspects of Marprelate's presentation of dialogic exchange. |
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