Geoffrey Chaucer and the Cosmic Text : Rejecting Analogy
- Author / Editor
- Børch, Marianne.
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Cosmic Text : Rejecting Analogy
- Published
- Marianne Børch, ed. Text and Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages (Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004), pp. 97-120.
- Description
- Assesses Nicholas's manipulation of language and signs in MilT as Chaucer's embedded analysis of typological or analogical thinking. The references to mystery plays in MilT counterpoint the "poetics of a trickster clerk" whose manipulations embody a challenge to analogical thinking.
- Alternative Title
- Text and Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.