Social Aesthetics and the Emergence of Civic Discourse from the Shipman's Tale to Melibee
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Karla.
Social Aesthetics and the Emergence of Civic Discourse from the Shipman's Tale to Melibee
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 298-322.
- Description
- Taylor reads ShT and Mel as an opposed pair. In ShT, puns indicate the failure of human attempts at community; in Mel, doublets encourage and iterate a linguistic and aesthetic community. Civil society comes into order in and through Mel, which expresses a "civic vocabulary for a community of English speakers."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Shipman and His Tale.