The 'Manciple's Tale': One Key to Chaucer's Language

Author / Editor
Gruber, Loren C.

Title
The 'Manciple's Tale': One Key to Chaucer's Language

Published
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 43-50.

Description
Argues that ManT contributes to the theme of the linguistic slipperiness in CT, depicting how language fails to reflect reliably the "actual nature of the world."

Alternative Title
New Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale
Language and Word Studies