Imagining the Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Walther, James Thomas.
Imagining the Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of North Texas, 2000. Dissertation Abstracts International A62.07. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and at https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2592/.
- Physical Description
- ii, 166 pp.
- Description
- Focuses on the use of vernacular English, specialized vocabulary, rural protagonist, and addresses to reader in "Piers Plowman" that work to engage a "national audience." Includes attention to "Mankind," Gower's "Vox Clamantis," and several works by Chaucer to explore the "horizon of expectations" these works pose to their audiences, fictive and actual.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies