Grammar, Genre, and Gender in Geoffrey Chaucer and Murasaki Shikibu

Author / Editor
Wheeler, Bonnie.

Title
Grammar, Genre, and Gender in Geoffrey Chaucer and Murasaki Shikibu

Published
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies (Tokyo) 44 (1995): 13-22.

Description
Chaucer and Murasaki Shikibu, author of "Genji Monogatari," share a number of literary features: a commitment to vernacular expression, grammatically and stylistically open texts, celebration of generic variety, and preoccupation with the female gender and its relations with power.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.