Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London
- Author / Editor
- Turner, Marion.
Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London
- Published
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- x, 213 pp.
- Series
- Oxford English Monographs.
- Description
- Explores how social division and civic dissent were articulated and addressed in late fourteenth-century literature. As evident in HF, TC, and CT, Chaucer was persistently interested in the slipperiness of truth and in the power of language. Figures such as Fame and the Host, who try to control and regulate discourse, expose the difficulties inherent in trying to limit what people can say. In the house of Rumour and on the Canterbury pilgrimage, discursive conflict can run riot, resisting authoritative meaning or peaceful resolution. Mel suggests that antagonism will always force its way to the surface and that reconciliation can at most be a temporary, politic state of affairs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Tale of Melibee.