'A leur fez cousines': Words, Deeds, and Proper Speech in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair J.
'A leur fez cousines': Words, Deeds, and Proper Speech in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
- Published
- Masahiko Kanno and others, eds. Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Yushodo, 1997), pp. 31-63.
- Description
- Demonstrates that Chaucer's "discourse of words and deeds" in GP and his apology for language in MilP are "heavily indebted" to Jean de Meun's comments on language in "Roman de la Rose," tracing lines of influence and emphasis from Jean's sources forward and exploring Chaucer's extension of Jean's depiction of what constitutes "proper" speech.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Miller and His Tale