Chaucer After the Linguistic Turn : Memory, History, and Fiction in the Link to Melibee
- Author / Editor
- Jones, Christine.
Chaucer After the Linguistic Turn : Memory, History, and Fiction in the Link to Melibee
- Published
- Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), 71-82 and 203.
- Description
- Jones considers language and its ability to represent reality in Th-MelL, arguing that unlike post-structuralist thinkers (such as Richard Rorty), Chaucer retains the "traditional distinction between history and fiction" even while cognizant of their overlappings.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Language and Word Studies.