'Fer in the north; I kan nat telle where': Dialect, Regionalism, and Philologism
- Author / Editor
- Epstein, Robert.
'Fer in the north; I kan nat telle where': Dialect, Regionalism, and Philologism
- Published
- SAC 30 (2008): 95-124.
- Description
- Analogous to orientalism, the "philologism" of RvT is rooted in "North-South binaries" that partake of and help to constitute southern condescension to northerners in England, even before the rise of a Standard Written Dialect. Informed by the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, the essay compares and contrasts the "regionalist generalizations" in RvT, The Second Shepherd's Play, and elsewhere in Middle English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies