Language and the Real: Chaucer's Manciple
- Author / Editor
- Harwood, Britton J.
Language and the Real: Chaucer's Manciple
- Published
- Chaucer Review 6.4 (1972): 268-79.
- Description
- Tallies Chaucer's modifications of his sources in ManT, especially the digressions he adds, to show that the "subject of the tale is language." In his tale, the Manciple "sneers at" people who "can be distracted from empirical reality by language," much as he ridicules then distracts the Cook in ManP and manipulates his employers in GP. The Manciple's cynical performance sets the stage for the Parson's earnest use of language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale
- Cook and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies