Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century: Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Gellrich, Jesse M.
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.