'Oure Occian': Littoral Language and the Constance Narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio

Author / Editor
Hsy, Jonathan H.

Title
'Oure Occian': Littoral Language and the Constance Narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio

Published
Paul Gifford and Tessa Hauswedell, eds. Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 205-24.

Description
Hsy compares the ways MLT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" 5.2 present transnational diversity, especially through their depictions of "littoral language," i.e., Custance's and Gostanza's communications with people on the shores of foreign lands. Both works indicate the "provisionality of medieval conceptions of linguistic and cultural identity." Hsy comments on uses of the word "oure" in MLT.

Contributor
Gifford, Paul, ed.
Hauswedell, Tessa, ed.

Alternative Title
Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations