Humanism and Language in Chaucer's Dream Visions
- Author / Editor
- Boardman, Phillip C.
Humanism and Language in Chaucer's Dream Visions
- Published
- Francis X. Hartigan, ed. Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989), pp. 239-51.
- Description
- Boardman traces Chaucer's humanism in BD, HF, and PF, "where he evolved a language capable of serving both tradition and experience while reserving a critical, even skeptical, attitude toward them.... Chaucer is 'involved yet objective, detached yet sympathetically moved';
- his art strikes an 'ironic balance between realism and idealism,' characterized by comic seriousness, mirth and morality, skeptical fideism and moral realism." Chaucer's humanism is neither easy nor inevitable.
- Contributor
- Hartigan, Francis X.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.