The Chaucer-Function: Spenser's Language Lessons in "The Shepheardes Calender."
- Author / Editor
- Hadbawnik, David.
The Chaucer-Function: Spenser's Language Lessons in "The Shepheardes Calender."
- Published
- Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies (2014): n.p. Web. March 3, 2019.
- Description
- Argues that Spenser emulates Chaucer in "furthering the project of language formation in English." Attending to Chaucer's model in CT (and to Richard Mulcaster's precepts), Spenser uses interactive speakers who have various dialects and lexicons to generate neologisms, and he thereby attains "the reputation for language-formation in English that had built up around Chaucer over the previous two centuries."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Language and Word Studies