Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings.
- Author / Editor
- Cawsey, Kathy.
Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings.
- Published
- Woodbridge: Brewer, 2020.
- Physical Description
- 222 pp.
- Description
- Explores images and metaphors in various works in Middle English to disclose their "implicit theories of language," with numerous references to Chaucer and his works throughout, including discussion of birdsong as oral language in PF and comparison of the interpretive complexities of "wheat and chaff" imagery in ParsPT and the play "Mankind." For an essay that pertains to HF, search under Alternative Title for Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Paarliament of Fowls
Parson and His Tale
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies