The Meaning of 'Variant Reading' in the Manly-Rickert 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Rydland, Kurt.

Title
The Meaning of 'Variant Reading' in the Manly-Rickert 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 805-14..

Description
Identifies limitations in the Manly-Rickert "Corpus of Variants" and urges caution in its use, explaining that their use of the term "variant" excludes dialectical variants as well as spelling variants. Regional dialectical variants are especially vexed.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Language and Word Studies
Canterbury Tales--General