The making of Chaucer's English : a study of words
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書誌事項
The making of Chaucer's English : a study of words
（Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 39）
Cambridge University Press, 2005, c1998
- : pbk
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"First published 1998, ... this digitally printed first paperback version 2005"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-428) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Making of Chaucer's English undertakes a substantial reappraisal of the place Chaucer's English occupies in the history of the English language and the language of English literature. It attacks the widespread presumption that Chaucer invented literary English and argues instead that Chaucer's English is generally traditional. It shows that Chaucer's linguistic innovation was as much performance as fact, but it also traces the linguistic strategies that made (and make) the performance of 'originality' so believable. It also includes a valuable history of every word Chaucer uses. The book also interrogates the theory and methodology of historicising languages, so even as it explores how Chaucer's words matter, it also questions why these particular words have acquired such importance for poets and scholars alike for 600 years.
目次
- Introduction
- Part I. A Study of Words: 1. The making of English and the English of Chaucer
- 2. Traditional English
- 3. The development of Chaucer's English
- 4. Invented English
- 5. The myth of origin and the making of Chaucer's English
- Part II. Words Studied: Chaucer's writings
- Chaucer's words.
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