Chaucer's Fiction and Linguistic Self-Consciousness in the Late Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Reiss, Edmund.

Title
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.