Stylistic Reconstruction and Chaucer's Prioress

Author / Editor
Burnley, David.

Title
Stylistic Reconstruction and Chaucer's Prioress

Published
Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics 10 (1984): 77-90.

Description
Reconstructs some features of the stylistic "architecture" of Chaucer's language and illustrates its exploitation in the GP description of the Prioress. The portrait may be more critical, less ambiguous, and less sympathetic than is usually assumed.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.