Authority, Identity, and "The Idea of the Vernacular" in "The Owl and the Nightingale."
- Author / Editor
- Phillips-Jones, Robin.
Authority, Identity, and "The Idea of the Vernacular" in "The Owl and the Nightingale."
- Published
- Marginalia 18 (2015): 14-23.
- Description
- Destabilizes the notion of a progression of "identifiable movements" in English vernacular writing culminating in Chaucer in the fourteenth century, arguing that "The Owl and the Nightingale" (c. 1200) should be taught as an early foundational vernacular text. The poem employs "outrageous satire" through the vernacular to critique and reconfigure the form of Latin debate poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies