Speak like a Child: Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Trilogy.
- Author / Editor
- Hadbawnik, David.
Speak like a Child: Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Trilogy.
- Published
- David Hadbawnik, ed. Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 179-204.
- Description
- Describes the "inbetweenedness" of language in Caroline Bergvall's poetic/performative “trilogy--"Meddle English" (2011), "Drift" (2014), and "Alisoun Sings" (2019)--including discussion of her uses of forms of "Chaucer's Middle English, as well as Old English and Old Norse." Assesses "The Host’s Tale" (from "Meddle English") as a "mash-up" of Chaucer that "sets a tone "for Bergvall's "Chaucerian experiment," comparing it with the treatment of the Host in Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes."
- Alternative Title
- Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion