Language as Literature
- Author / Editor
- Kane, George.
Language as Literature
- Published
- Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester, eds. Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Costerus New Series, no. 133. (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001), pp. 161-71.
- Description
- Argues for "literary" rather than "historicist" analysis, examining the tone and rhetoric of the reference to the uprising of 1381 in NPT and arguing that Chaucer was "distancing" himself from the events.
- Contributor
- Kay, Christian J., ed.
- Sylvester, Louise M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.