The Language Group of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Cannon, Christopher.
The Language Group of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan, eds. Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), pp. 25-40.
- Description
- In their attention to language as "an active part of social life," the FranT, NPT, and ManT constitute a language group whose tales are deeply rhetorical in the sense that they look closely at how language works as "an entity, process or phenomenon," illustrating, as often, "linguistic failure." Concerns of the language group extend to the whole of the CT. Some discussion of the Host, ClT, and PardT.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Franklin and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Manciple and His Tale