Language as Literature

Author / Editor
Kane, George.

Title
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.