Sche made many a wonder soun: Performative Utterances and the Figure of Medea in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and John Gower’s Confessio Amantis

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  • James Wade University of York

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Ovid, John Gower, Poetry, Medieval

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Sche made many a wonder soun: Performative Utterances and the Figure of Medea in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. (2004). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 9. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/36