'Pronuntiatio' and Its Effect on Chaucer's Audience
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
'Pronuntiatio' and Its Effect on Chaucer's Audience
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1981): 33-51.
- Description
- The reaction of Chaucer's contemporary listeners was more confident and unequivocal than our own because of the way the reader presented the poetry through oral delivery.
- If the reader used techniques described by rhetoricians under the rubric of "pronuntiatio" (such gestures as facial expression, walking up and down, stamping foot, slapping the thigh, beating the head, or moving the hands), many of the opportunities for an autonomous or phenomenological interpretation of the poetry would be eliminated.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.