The Making of Chaucer's English by Christopher Cannon

The Making of Chaucer's English by Christopher Cannon

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.

"..arguments in the book..succeed well in reading philology through a postmodern lens." Speculum

Dr. Eli Gelfand is a clinical cardiologist, who provides comprehensive care for patients with a full range of heart and vascular problems at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
He is the Director of the Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and is the, Harvard Medial School and is the Associate Cardiovascular Fellowship Director at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Christopher P. Cannon, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a senior investigator of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group. Dr. Cannon has published more than 500 original articles, reviews, editorials, book chapters, and electronic publications in the field of acute coronary syndromes.
Dr. Cannon has received numerous awards including the Alfred Steiner Research Award, Upjohn Achievement in Research Award, and Robert F. Loeb Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and of the American College of Cardiology.

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ISBN 13	9780521592741
ISBN 10	0521592747
Title	The Making of Chaucer's English
Author	Christopher Cannon
Series	Cambridge Studies In Medieval Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1999-02-18
Number of pages	452
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