Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century: Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

Author / Editor
Gellrich, Jesse M.

Title
Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century: Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

Published
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Physical Description
xiv, 304 pp.

Description
Examines the ways oral tradition continues to influence writing in late-medieval literature, considering works of Ockham and Wyclif, chronicles of the reigns of Edward III and Richard II, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and KnT.
In KnT, Chaucer poses relations between political domination and metalinguistic discourse, issues important during the minority of Richard II.
The conflict between spoken and written modes in KnT is self-reflexive, and it critiques contemporary political dominion in which power resulted from the displacement of voice.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.