Shifting Traditions: Chaucer's Narrative Accomplishment in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" Considered in the Context of the Shift from Oral Tradition to Literate Print Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Sylvester, Ruth.
Shifting Traditions: Chaucer's Narrative Accomplishment in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" Considered in the Context of the Shift from Oral Tradition to Literate Print Tradition
- Published
- ETC: A Review of General Semantics 71.3 (2014): 248-57.
- Description
- Summarizes differences between oral and literate communication, describes CT as a product of a transitional "manuscript culture," and discusses how WBP lends verisimilitude to the speaking voice of WBT, an example of Chaucer's virtuosity in a "time of cultural shift."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale