Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women': Structure and Tone
- Author / Editor
- Cowen, Janet M.
Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women': Structure and Tone
- Published
- Studies in Philology 82 (1985): 416-36.
- Description
- In LGW, Chaucer uses the narrative approaches of hagiography (brevity, narrative selection, and focus for commemorative and edificational purpose) to achieve variations in tone and perspective. The heroines, however, are exempla of human, not divine, truth.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.