'Rum, Ram, Ruf': Chaucer and Linguistic Whig History
- Author / Editor
- Johnston, Andrew James.
'Rum, Ram, Ruf': Chaucer and Linguistic Whig History
- Published
- Claudia Lange, Ursula Schaefer, and Göran Wolf, eds. Linguistics, Ideology, and the Discourse of Linguistic Nationalism (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 37-51.
- Description
- Johnston scrutinizes Chaucer's comments on alliterative poetry in ParsP, interpreting them as evidence of a power struggle in England's evolving literary field. By presenting aesthetic difference as linguistic difference, Chaucer consciously presents alliterative poetry as provincial and old-fashioned and seeks to banish it from the literary scene.
- Contributor
- Lange, Claudia, ed.
- Schaefer, Ursula, ed.
- Wolf, Göran, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Linguistics, Ideology, and the Discourse of Linguistic Nationalism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.