The Moment of 'Sir Thopas': Towards a New Look at Chaucer's Language
- Author / Editor
- Gaylord, Alan T.
The Moment of 'Sir Thopas': Towards a New Look at Chaucer's Language
- Published
- Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 311-29.
- Description
- Readers have been too ready to dismiss Th as a parody of popular romances. Chaucer's achievement is something much more subtle: he invents his own English, his own literary idiolect, and then goes on to parody not merely the romances but also the fancies and temptations of his own practice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.