Chaucer and the politics of discourse /
Grudin, Michaela Paasche,1941-
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : speech and the Commonwealth -- The dream visions : discourse at play : The book of the Duchess, The house of fame, The Parliament of fowls -- Speche in Troilus and Criseyde -- The Knight's tale and the discourse of authority -- Discourse and freedom in The Wife of Bath's prologue -- Words and deeds in The Squire's tale and The Franklin's tale -- The Monk's tale and Chaucer's idea of the listener -- The Manciple's tale and the poetics of guile -- Discourse and closure in The Canterbury tales.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Speech in literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Politics and literature
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Tales, Medieval
Storytelling in literature.