Forms of Talk in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Ganim, John, M.

Title
Forms of Talk in The Canterbury Tales

Published
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 34 (1991):88-100.

Description
Investigates the ways CT problematizes the medium of speech and, through its self-conscious narrators, comments on the changing value of spoken language. Though Chaucer preserves and allows resistance to the tyrannies of high literary form, his relation to the poetry of common speech is problematic.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General