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Title: THE MAKING OF CHAUCER'S ENGLISH
A STUDY OF WORDS
By: Christopher Cannon, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521022673
ISBN 13: 9780521022675
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 23 September, 2005
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature No. 39
Pages: 452
Description: A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language and literature.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 1 b/w illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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