'Oure Occian': Littoral Language and the Constance Narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Author / Editor
- Hsy, Jonathan H.
'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