Glasnost in Middle English Prose, or, How is Modern Text Type Theory Applicable to Medieval Texts?
- Author / Editor
- Markus, Manfred.
Glasnost in Middle English Prose, or, How is Modern Text Type Theory Applicable to Medieval Texts?
- Published
- Claus Uhlig and Rudiger Zimmerman, eds. Anglistentag 1990 Marburg: Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Professors of English, no. 12 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1991), pp. 177-94.
- Description
- Enumerative disjunctions, emphasizers, repetition, and variation produce the controlled style of CT. Chaucer's two prose tales, ParsT and Mel, have characteristics that are found less in verse (and that modern readers dislike): cohesive redundancy and repetitive verbosity, on the one hand, and a bossy pedantic attitude, on the other.
- Alternative Title
- Anglistentag 1990 Marburg.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.