Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages) : portrait |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 sense |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Symbolism
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Language
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SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. ((The)) Canterbury tales. swd |
Subject |
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Semantics.
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Semiotics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Signs and symbols -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Symbolism in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English language -- Middle English -- Semantics
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Language and languages
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Semiotics and literature
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Signs and symbols
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Symbolism
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Symbolism in literature
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Aufsatzsammlung
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England
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Myles, Robert, 1947-
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Williams, David (David Eliot), 1939-
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Wurtele, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
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LC no. |
2004540853 |
ISBN |
9780773569201 |
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0773569200 |
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1282859315 |
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9781282859319 |
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