Loose Talk from Langland to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Middleton, Anne.
Loose Talk from Langland to Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 29-46.
- Description
- Documents William Langland's use, in "Piers Plowman," of sudden, irruptive, colloquial, and polysemous language, distinguishing it from so-called "real" speech and assessing its thematic, narratological, and ethical values. Gower found this device of "loose talk" to be disturbing, while Chaucer embraced it as a fundamental source of inspiration, underpinning a number of his innovations.
- Alternative Title
- Biennial Chaucer Lecture, the New Chaucer Society, Eighteenth International Congress, July 23-26, 2012, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Style and Versification
- Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations