Chaucer Imagines England (in English)
- Author / Editor
- Knapp, Peggy A.
Chaucer Imagines England (in English)
- Published
- Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 131-60.
- Description
- Knapp historicizes several terms ("ymaginacioun," "fantasye," "resoun," "imaginatyf," "engyn") representing the role of language in national fantasy, exploring how Chaucer uses them throughout his poetry to construct ways of imagining. In CT, PrT demonstrates Chaucer's commitment to the expressive potential of English, and the understanding of time by several of the pilgrim-citizens (Knight, Monk, Miller, and Pardoner) affects their unhistoricized storytelling.
- Alternative Title
- Imagining a Medieval English Nation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.