Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun
- Published
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xii, 306 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 63.
- Description
- Following an exposition of received biblical history and medieval commentaries in which the Fall and Babel represent declensions from unity and clarity, Fyler addresses Jean's Roman, Dante's Commedia, HF, SNT, and CYT intertextually and in the context of those traditions. Dante envisions linguistic redemption; Jean de Meun suggests the imposition of alienating categories on pre-lapsarian plenitude; and Chaucer stages a reenactment of the Fall between SNT and CYT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- House of Fame.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.