Reading Dinosaur Bones: Marking the Transition from Orality to Literacy in The Canterbury Tales, Moll Flanders, Clarissa, and Tristram Shandy
- Author / Editor
- Wodzak, Victoria Lee.
Reading Dinosaur Bones: Marking the Transition from Orality to Literacy in The Canterbury Tales, Moll Flanders, Clarissa, and Tristram Shandy
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 500A.
- Description
- Assesses the status of CT and three eighteenth-century novels as "transitional texts" between orality and literacy, examining such features as voicing, framing devices, and insecurity about the social and moral roles of the texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.