Chaucer's Clerical Voices
- Author / Editor
- Elliott, Ralph W. V.
Chaucer's Clerical Voices
- Published
- Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson, eds. Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), pp. 146-55.
- Description
- Analyzes clerical speech habits in Chaucer's GP "ars descriptionis personae"; affective tone in PrT, SNP, SNT, MkT, and ClT; and, where appropriate, the connection with the stately rhyme-royal stanza--with contrasts to language, verse styles, and other voices in CT, in FrT, PardT, and ClP (Harry Bailly).
- Alternative Title
- Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Style and Versification.