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The Making of Chaucer's English
Christopher Cannon
其他書名
A Study of Words
出版Cambridge University Press, 1998
主題Foreign Language Study / Old & Middle EnglishLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / MedievalLiterary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN05215927479780521592741
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hBfXOc93umgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.