Chaucer and the politics of discourse
By: Michaela Paasche Grudin.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Technique.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Speech in literature.; Discourse analysis, Literary.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain.; Rhetoric, Medieval.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Storytelling in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : speech and the Commonwealth; value: The dream visions : discourse at play : The book of the Duchess, The house of fame, The Parliament of fowls; value: Speche in Troilus and Criseyde; value: The Knight's tale and the discourse of authority; value: Discourse and freedom in The Wife of Bath's prologue; value: Words and deeds in The Squire's tale and The Franklin's tale; value: The Monk's tale and Chaucer's idea of the listener; value: The Manciple's tale and the poetics of guile; value: Discourse and closure in The Canterbury tales.