Semiotic Perception and the Problem of Chaucer's 'Prejudice'
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Marcus A. J., and Julian N. Wasserman.
Semiotic Perception and the Problem of Chaucer's 'Prejudice'
- Published
- Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies 1 (1999): 145-86. [Web publication.]
- Description
- Considers strategies that have been used to accuse and excuse Chaucer (and others) of prejudice against women, homosexuals, and Jews, suggesting that medieval language theory and Chaucer's awareness of the semiotic gap between sign and signified (evident in NPT and elsewhere) encourages us to read the Wife of Bath, Pardoner, and Prioress as embodiments of semiotic awareness rather than prejudice.
- Contributor
- Wasserman, Julian N.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale