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Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun / John M. Fyler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fyler, John M., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 63.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 63
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.
- Jean.
- Bible. Genesis, I--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Language & the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, & Jean de Meun
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and described the progressive impairment of an originally perfect language. Biblical and classical sources raised questions for both medieval poets and commentators about the nature of language, its participation in the Fall, and its possible redemption. John M. Fyler focuses on how three major poets - Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun - participated in these debates about language. He offers fresh analyses of how the history of language is described and debated in the Divine Comedy, the Canterbury Tales and the Roman de la Rose. While Dante follows the Augustinian idea of the Fall and subsequent redemption of language, Jean de Meun and Chaucer are skeptical about the possibilities for linguistic redemption and resign themselves, at least half-comically, to the linguistic implications of the Fall and the declining world.
- Contents:
- The biblical history of language
- Love and language in Jean de Meun
- Dante and Chaucer's Dante
- The prison-house of language.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-19774-0
- 1-139-81065-0
- 1-107-31669-3
- 1-107-32208-1
- 1-107-31765-7
- 1-107-31857-2
- 1-299-39976-2
- 1-107-31573-5
- 0-511-62744-0
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