Chaucer and the Written Language
- Author / Editor
- Fisher, John H.
Chaucer and the Written Language
- Published
- Thomas J. Heffernan, ed. The Popular Literature of Medieval England (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985), pp. 237-51.
- Description
- Chaucer was evidently educated in the "ars dictaminis" (art of letter writing), which emphasized voice and point of view and may have influenced CT. While individual tales may have been written to be recited, CT as a collection was designed to be read, thus affecting tone and literary reference.
- Alternative Title
- The Popular Literature of Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Style and Versification.