France
- Author / Editor
- Butterfield, Ardis.
France
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 25-46.
- Description
- Butterfield reviews traditional, generally dismissive attitudes toward "Frenchness" in Chaucer criticism and advocates a new awareness of the linguistic complexity that underlies Chaucer's uses of French models and French diction, particularly the interpenetration of international dialects of French in England and on the Continent. Comments in detail on Chaucer's use of Froissart in the opening of BD and explores the multilingual--and multicultural--dimensions of puns in ShT.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Language and Word Studies
- Book of the Duchess
- Shipman and His Tale