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Chaucer's narrators and audiences

Self-deprecating discourse in Book of the Duchess and House of Fame

Abstract

Chaucer's narrator-persona has been a central theme in Chaucerian scholarship; the persona has traditionally been seen as a mask behind which the poet hides. Within this essay it is argued that the narrators of theBook of the DuchessandHouse of Fameare a type of social mask, and that by rhetorically employing and manipulating the social dynamic between himself and his real-world audience, Chaucer produces a narrator figure which will influence how his contemporary audience would perceive the poet outside the fictional world of the text.

Abstract

Chaucer's narrator-persona has been a central theme in Chaucerian scholarship; the persona has traditionally been seen as a mask behind which the poet hides. Within this essay it is argued that the narrators of theBook of the DuchessandHouse of Fameare a type of social mask, and that by rhetorically employing and manipulating the social dynamic between himself and his real-world audience, Chaucer produces a narrator figure which will influence how his contemporary audience would perceive the poet outside the fictional world of the text.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A frame for windows 1
  5. Part I. Discourse in the public sphere
  6. News discourse 7
  7. Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers 23
  8. Presidential inaugural addresses 39
  9. Freedom of speech at stake 53
  10. Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines 65
  11. Part II. Science and academia
  12. Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse 83
  13. The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century 95
  14. Contesting authorities 109
  15. Personal pronouns in argumentation 123
  16. Criticism under scrutiny 143
  17. The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax 161
  18. Genres and the appropriation of science 179
  19. Part III. Letters and litterature
  20. Chaucer's narrators and audiences 199
  21. Discourse on a par with syntax, or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type 215
  22. Verba sic spernit mea 237
  23. Part IV. Discourse and pragmatics
  24. ‘Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe’ 259
  25. Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers 279
  26. From certainty to doubt 301
  27. Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns 319
  28. Part V. Language contact and discourse
  29. Discourse features of code-switching in legal reports in late medieval England 343
  30. Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish 353
  31. Medieval mixed-language business discourse and the rise of Standard English 381
  32. Author Index 401
  33. Subject Index 409
Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.134.18fos

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A frame for windows 1
  5. Part I. Discourse in the public sphere
  6. News discourse 7
  7. Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers 23
  8. Presidential inaugural addresses 39
  9. Freedom of speech at stake 53
  10. Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines 65
  11. Part II. Science and academia
  12. Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse 83
  13. The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century 95
  14. Contesting authorities 109
  15. Personal pronouns in argumentation 123
  16. Criticism under scrutiny 143
  17. The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax 161
  18. Genres and the appropriation of science 179
  19. Part III. Letters and litterature
  20. Chaucer's narrators and audiences 199
  21. Discourse on a par with syntax, or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type 215
  22. Verba sic spernit mea 237
  23. Part IV. Discourse and pragmatics
  24. ‘Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe’ 259
  25. Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers 279
  26. From certainty to doubt 301
  27. Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns 319
  28. Part V. Language contact and discourse
  29. Discourse features of code-switching in legal reports in late medieval England 343
  30. Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish 353
  31. Medieval mixed-language business discourse and the rise of Standard English 381
  32. Author Index 401
  33. Subject Index 409
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