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Chaucer and Language Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele 1st Edition by Robert Myles, David A Williams ISBN 0773569200 9780773569201

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Author(s): Robert Myles; David A. Williams
ISBN(s): 9780773569201, 0773569200
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.87 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0773569200 
ISBN 13: 9780773569201
Author: Robert Myles, David A Williams

Every poet arrives at some sense of how language works. Chaucer’s engagement, like that of the greatest literary figures, goes beyond the brilliant, skilful use of language as a tool of expression, beyond what we usually call “talent.” He brings to the creative use of signification a sophisticated philosophical questioning of the very nature of language, of how we know and how we signify. Chaucer and Language argues that Chaucer’s work points to answers to these questions, emphasizing that in various ways Chaucer made language itself the subject of his writing. The polyvalent nature of signs and the ambiguity this makes possible are discussed as one aspect of Chaucer’s use of language as subject, as is irony. Chaucer’s extension of the concept of language to include relics and the Eucharist, his exploitation of equivocation and the lie, and the semiotic dimensions of his poetic themes are also treated. These issues derive directly from the long tradition of mediaeval sign theory and anticipate the major issues of the modern theory of signs that is semantics.

Chaucer and Language Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele 1st Table of contents:

  1. Introduction: Honoring Douglas Wurtele and Chaucer’s Linguistic Legacy

  2. Chaucer’s Language in Historical Context

  3. The Dialects of Chaucer: Regional Influences and Variations

  4. Chaucer’s Use of Middle English Vocabulary

  5. Syntax and Grammar in Chaucer’s Works

  6. Chaucer’s Poetic Language and Style

  7. The Influence of French and Latin on Chaucer’s English

  8. Chaucer’s Language and the Development of English Literary Tradition

  9. Phonological Features in Chaucer’s Texts

  10. Manuscript Variants and Linguistic Differences

  11. Douglas Wurtele’s Contributions to Chaucerian Linguistics

  12. Modern Approaches to Studying Chaucer’s Language

  13. Essays on Specific Texts: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and Others

  14. Chaucer’s Language and Its Reception in Later English Literature

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