The Language of Equivocation: Some Chaucerian Techniques

Author / Editor
Diekstra, Frans.

Title
The Language of Equivocation: Some Chaucerian Techniques

Published
Dutch Quarterly Review 11 (1981): 267-77.

Description
Chaucer developed a poetic idiom of ubiquitous equivocal effects and prevarication both in the comments of his persona and in the voices of his speakers. Poems touched on include TC, PardT, NPT, MerT, and LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.