Differentiating Chaucer and Lydgate: Some Preliminary Observations
- Author / Editor
- Reimer, Stephen R.
Differentiating Chaucer and Lydgate: Some Preliminary Observations
- Published
- Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 161-76.
- Description
- Summarizes questions of Lydgate's canon and its relation to Chaucerian apocrypha. Describes a series of computer-assisted stylistic analyses used to clarify the canon, showing that Lydgate tends to use "large and complex syntactic structures" and "certain characteristic words and phrases."
- Alternative Title
- Computer-Based Chaucer Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.