Chaucer-Type.

Author / Editor
De Gaynesford, Maximilian.

Title
Chaucer-Type.

Published
In The Rift in the Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 119-33.

Description
Revises and expands De Gaynesford's essay "Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry" (2013), which identifies a type of poetic performative speech-act that he labels the "Chaucer-type," explaining it by reference to the poet's dedication of his book in TC 5.1856-62, and assessing its performative features.

Alternative Title
The Rift in the Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy.
Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Troilus and Criseyde