Literary and Other Languages in Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Literary and Other Languages in Middle English
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 166-85.
- Description
- Almost all studies of Middle English language and style are flawed in method or lacking in comprehensiveness. The reaction of the medieval audience to dialectal differences is hard to gauge; e.g., sociolinguistic implications of the Northern dialect in RvT.
- Several approaches may be valuable: printers' prologues that comment on language, scribal presentation in manuscripts, and comments of Chaucer's followers and early editors such as Caxton. Blake studies scribal glosses in various manuscripts of CT.
- Alternative Title
- Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Reeve and His Tale.