Words and Deeds in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Cowdery, Taylor.
Words and Deeds in Chaucer.
- Published
- Taylor Cowdery. Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 15-51.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's various engagements with the commonplace notion that "wordes moote be cosyn to the dede" (GP, 742), focusing on CT, which initially presents literature as unconstrained by norms, and later counters this flexibility to show that "literary discourse" is "tied to the historical conditions that have produced its narratives, tropes, forms, and words." Also assesses the commonplace in Dante, Boccaccio, Jean de Meun, and Gower.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Language and Word Studies