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Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun // John M. Fyler.
remainder title:	Language & the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, & Jean de Meun
Author:	Fyler, John M.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Historical linguistics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627446
ISBN:	9780511627446 (ebook)

Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun /
Fyler, John M.,

Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun /Language & the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, & Jean de MeunJohn M. Fyler. - 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;63. - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;42..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The biblical history of language -- Love and language in Jean de Meun -- Dante and Chaucer's Dante -- The prison-house of language.

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.

ISBN: 9780511627446 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

964755
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
-1400.Subjects--Uniform Titles:

Bible.
--Genesis, I--Criticism, interpretation, etc.Subjects--Topical Terms:

558392
Historical linguistics.

LC Class. No.: BS1235.52 / .F95 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 809.1/934

Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun /
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