An Afterword on the Prologue.
- Author / Editor
- Evans, Ruth.
An Afterword on the Prologue.
- Published
- Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans, eds. The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520 (University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press; Exeter: University of Exeter Press 1999), pp. 331-52, pp. 371-78.
- Description
- Assesses the functions of prologues in Middle English literature, commenting on nuances of "prohemye," "prefacyon," ”preamble," etc., and exploring how prefatory works "disorganiz[e] the categories of center and periphery, 'theoria' and 'praxis'." Includes recurrent comments on GP, WBP, and ClP.
- Alternative Title
- The Idea of the Vernacular
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale