Chaucer and language : essays in honour of Douglas Wurtele /
Geoffrey Chaucer is increasingly recognized as a writer whose work is particularly congenial to modern tastes. The essays in Chaucer and Language are at the forefront of present-day interest in Chaucer as a highly self-conscious manipulator of language and theorist of signification in the broadest s...
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Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2001.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: a life in progress / M.I. Cameron
- Introduction / David Williams
- Chaucer and character: the heresies of Douglas Wurtele / Robert Myles
- "Withouten oother compaignye in youthe": verbal and moral ambiguity in the General prologue portrait of the wife of Bath / Beverly Kennedy
- The wife of Bath and "speeche daungerous" / Chauncey Wood
- The Franklin, Epicurus, and the play of values / E.C. Ronquist
- Mapping a history of sexuality in Melibee / Glenn Burger
- Chaucer after the linguistic turn: memory, history, and fiction in the link to Melibee / Christine Jones
- Chaucer's clerk, on the level? / Victor Yelverton Haines
- Confusing signs: the semiotic point of view in the Clerk's tale / Robert Myles
- Sense, reference, and wisdom in the Merchant's tale / Patrick J. Gallacher
- "Lo how I vanysshe": the Pardoner's war against signs / David Williams.