Literacy and Orality in Late 14th Century Vernacular Sermons and in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Volk-Birke, Sabine.

Title
Literacy and Orality in Late 14th Century Vernacular Sermons and in Chaucer

Published
Heinz-Joachim Mullenbrock and Renate Noll-Weimann, eds. Anglistentag 1988 Gottingen: Vortrage (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1989),pp. 209-19.

Description
The oral-aural traditions of sermon giving and hearing can be illustrated in Chaucer's PardT, where four principles of sermon writing can be seen: strong interaction between the Pardoner and his audience of pilgrims; syntactic patterns such as parallel constructions, comparisons, and causal relationships; structural organization of the tale as a sermon; and "the sermon narrative" of the tale itself.

Contributor
Mullenbrock, Heinz Joachim, ed.
Noll-Weimann, Renate, ed.

Alternative Title
Anglistentag 1988 Gottingen.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.