‘Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek!’
Barbara Newman: Chaucer’s Voices, 21 November 2019
Chaucer: A European Life
by Marion Turner.
Princeton, 599 pp., £30, April 2019,978 0 691 16009 2 Show More
by Marion Turner.
Princeton, 599 pp., £30, April 2019,
“... sycophantic courtier, ironist and, not least, duelling misogynist and feminist versions. In Marion Turner’s capacious biography – the first since Derek Pearsall’s in 1992 and the first ever by a woman – Chaucer is Bakhtinian and plural, a man of many voices. Much like his Canterbury pilgrims, he is always en route but never arriving. We ... ”