Chaucer's Little Treatises
- Author / Editor
- Grace, Dominick M.
Chaucer's Little Treatises
- Published
- Florilegium 14 (1995-96): 157-70.
- Description
- Interpretations of "tretys" in MelP have assumed a single referent for both occurrences of the term. But here and elsewhere Chaucer challenges assumptions of consistency between word and meaning. In making the first use of "tretys" refer to Mel and the second to its source, Chaucer encourages readers to think of the relationship between word and meaning as a problem, not a given.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Language and Word Studies.