False 'Rekenynges': Sharp Practice and the Politics of Language in Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Patton, Celeste A.
False 'Rekenynges': Sharp Practice and the Politics of Language in Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 399-417.
- Description
- The Manciple evinces linguistic fraud through his digression on language, his shaping of the crow fable, and his impersonation of his mother's voice arguing against speech (a mispresentation of Jean de Meun's discourse of Reason and a foil to the silenced Coronis of the traditional fable). These devaluations of language mirror his corrupt mercantile practices and link ManT to the concerns with transformation in SNT, CYT, and ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.