'Rum, Ram, Ruf': Chaucer and Linguistic Whig History

Author / Editor
Johnston, Andrew James.

Title
'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.