Hearing and Reading in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
Hearing and Reading in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Willi Erzgraber and Sabine Volk, eds. Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im englischen Mittelalter. Script Oralia, vol. 5 (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 121-31.
- Series
- ScriptOralia, no. 05 (1988)
- Description
- Examines both "authorial strategies guiding and determining the reception" of CT and the reception itself--especially the "free-flowing live speech" of WBP and CYP, oralizations in KnT and MLT, dialogue in MilT and FrT, and figures of sound in various tales designed for reading. CT presents "a complex pattern of orality and literacy," reflected in the notes in various editions.
- Alternative Title
- Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im englischen Mittelalter.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.