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Critical Pleasure, Visceral Literacy, and the Prik of Conscience
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 13, Issue 2, Spring 2013
- pp. 245-266
- Article
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The Prik of Conscience is a lengthy and widely distributed medieval poem (more than 9,600 lines, more than 115 surviving manuscripts). But should we call it literature? Spurring vigorous discussions of aesthetic value and providing a vivid introduction to spoken Middle English, the Prik of Conscience functions as a usefully disruptive classroom "voice."