'It lyth nat in my tonge' : Occupatio and Otherness in the Squire's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Ambrisco, Alan S.
'It lyth nat in my tonge' : Occupatio and Otherness in the Squire's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 38 (2004): 205-28.
- Description
- The Squire's "bad use of occupatio and his self-conscious admissions of rhetorical inadequacy" preserve the foreign, "acknowledging Mongol cultural differences but failing to clarify the terms on which such differences rest." Through "this rhetoric of failure," SqT suggests the limitations of the Squire's English and of the English language itself. SqT is "unified not by its narrative elements but . . . by the way its linguistic anxieties are revealed and processed."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.