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...
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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.
""Contents""; ""Preface: A Life in Progress""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chaucer and Character: The Heresies of Douglas Wurtele""; ""“Withouten oother compaignye in youthe�: Verbal and Moral Ambiguity in the General Prologue Portrait of the Wife of Bath""; ""The Wife of Bath and “Speche Daungerous�""; ""The Franklin, Epicurus, and the Play of Values""; ""Mapping a History of Sexuality in Melibee""; ""Chaucer after the Linguistic Turn: Memory, History, and Fiction in the Link to Melibee""; ""Chaucer�s Clerk, on the Level?""
""Confusing Signs: The Semiotic Point of View in the Clerk�s Tale""""Sense, Reference, and Wisdom in the Merchant�s Tale""; ""“ Lo how I vanysshe�: The Pardoner�s War against Signs""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix: Published Writings of Douglas Wurtele""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""
