Narrative Strategies in Early English Poetry

Author / Editor
Richardson, Peter Kent.

Title
Narrative Strategies in Early English Poetry

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 2936A.

Description
In medieval verse (e.g., Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Horn, and Chaucer's works), tense and aspect of verbs prove more significant than previously recognized. Rather than serving demands of meter and rhyme, Chaucer's verbal constructions signal narrative development.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.