Narrative Strategies in Early English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Richardson, Peter Kent.
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.