Orality and Literacy in Three Medieval English Texts: Bede's 'Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum,' Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' and 'The Book of Margery Kempe'
- Author / Editor
- Uhlman, Diana Rae.
Orality and Literacy in Three Medieval English Texts: Bede's 'Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum,' Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' and 'The Book of Margery Kempe'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 2564A.
- Description
- Freed from the false dichotomy of oral/writen literature, these three works are seen as history created through the fusion of oral and written sources (Bede), literary use of oral performance conventions (CT frame), and credible combinations of textual authority with the authenticity of spoken language (Kempe).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.