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Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

Hardcover

EconomicsLiterary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0333753798
ISBN13: 9780333753798
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 29 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Time-Bound Words argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising ways, and investigates this claim by following eleven words from Chaucer's time to Shakespeare's. Middle English words like corage, estat, thrift, and virtù come to serve the logic of new social discourses by 1611. Language from Chaucer, Wyclif, More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and others is examined both as current and emerging usage, and as verbal play that accomplishes cultural work.

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