Chaucer's Fiction and Linguistic Self-Consciousness in the Late Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Reiss, Edmund.
Chaucer's Fiction and Linguistic Self-Consciousness in the Late Middle Ages
- Published
- Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 97-119.
- Description
- Chaucer's ludic use of language reflects the contemporary attitude toward "translatio" (the transformation of meaning and content and the creation of ambiguity) and the emphasis in logic and grammar on the limitations and inadequacy of language and on the difficulty of interpretation.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.