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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Myles, Robert, 1947-, Williams, David (David Eliot), 1939-, Wurtele, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.