Chaucer's Trivial Fox Chase and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381

Description: In its use of unarticulated sounds, nonce words, models of grammatical meaning, and logical propositions and contradictions, as well as its specific historical circumstances, NPT draws on the most familiar and elementary of cultural structures, simultaneously rewriting the very cultural features and assumptions that give it meaning (HF is a "sustained parody of the academic doctrines of speech").; In NPT, Chaucer "compresses a host of these grammatical matters into one dramatic scene: the justly famous pursuit of the fox." Priscian and Aristotle are "carnivalized," while the trivium is parodied in a "sonic 'amplificatio ad absurdem'."; Travis also examines the function of the "jakke straw" allusion.