Chaucer and the Language of Contemporary Preaching
- Author / Editor
- Wenzel, Siegfried.
Chaucer and the Language of Contemporary Preaching
- Published
- Studies in Philology 73 (1976): 138-61.
- Description
- The influence of sermon language and structure has been recognized in certain of Chaucer's characterizations. However, his reliance on contemporary preaching obviously goes beyond such loose imitation to the borrowing of story plots, images, and technical terms of fourteenth-century sermon literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.