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1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages) : portrait |
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Language and languages |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: a life in progress / M.I. Cameron -- Introduction / David Williams -- Chaucer and character: the heresies of Douglas Wurtele / Robert Myles -- "Withouten oother compaignye in youthe": verbal and moral ambiguity in the General prologue portrait of the wife of Bath / Beverly Kennedy -- Wife of Bath and "speeche daungerous" / Chauncey Wood -- Franklin, Epicurus, and the play of values / E.C. Ronquist -- Mapping a history of sexuality in Melibee / Glenn Burger -- Chaucer after the linguistic turn: memory, history, and fiction in the link to Melibee / Christine Jones -- Chaucer's clerk, on the level? / Victor Yelverton Haines -- Confusing signs: the semiotic point of view in the Clerk's tale / Robert Myles -- Sense, reference, and wisdom in the Merchant's tale / Patrick J. Gallacher -- "Lo how I vanysshe": the Pardoner's war against signs / David Williams. |
| Summary |
Geoffrey Chaucer is increasingly recognized as a writer whose work is particularly congenial to modern tastes. The essays in Chaucer and Language are at the forefront of present-day interest in Chaucer as a highly self-conscious manipulator of language and theorist of signification in the broadest sense. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge and learning -- Language and languages.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Symbolism.
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Symbolism. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Language.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, m. 1400 -- Langue. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, m. 1400 -- Style. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. ((The)) Canterbury tales. |
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Semantics.
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Semiotics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Semiotics and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Signs and symbols -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Signs and symbols. |
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Symbolism in literature.
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Symbolism in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Myles, Robert, 1947-
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Williams, David (David Eliot), 1939-
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Wurtele, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chaucer and language. Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2004540853 |
| ISBN |
9780773569201 (electronic book) |
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0773569200 (electronic book) |
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1282859315 |
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9781282859319 |
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0773521828 (acid-free paper) |
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9780773521827 |
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