Chaucer's Literacy

Author / Editor
Christianson, (C.) Paul.

Title
Chaucer's Literacy

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 112-27.

Description
Chaucer self-consciously makes the reader aware of the achievement of the writer, of the reader as reader, and of the intelligent response he is asking the reader to make. All three point to Chaucer's fascination with the power of language as a key to the understanding of human nature.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Language and Word Studies.