Oure Tonges Differance: Textuality and Deconstruction in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Leicester, H. Marshall,Jr.
Oure Tonges Differance: Textuality and Deconstruction in Chaucer
- Published
- Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, eds. Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 15-26.
- Description
- Invoking "Derridean models," Leicester examines the problem of evolution of medieval manuscripts. With its possibility of "univocal meaning," "logocentric" oral literary culture flattens out the difference between composer and audience; the scribal and editorial processes involved in the manuscript tradition complicate the mediation between medieval author and reader. Draws examples from TC, PF, LGW, CT, Th, and Mel.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.