Syntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Roscow, Gregory.
Syntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1981.
- Physical Description
- x, 158 pp.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 06.
- Description
- Concentrates on "colloquialism" in Chaucer's syntax in the context of popular romance and poetry, including some examples from Old English, finding that "discontinuous patterns of word-order" and "negative forms of emphatic expression" contribute to vigorous poetic syntax.
- Includes chapters on word order, idiomatic usage, pleonasm, ellipsis, relative clauses, and coordination and parataxis. Includes bibliography, general index, and an index of Chaucer quotations. No footnotes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.