The Language and Expressions of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Sudo, Jun.

Title
The Language and Expressions of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Nobuyuki Yuasa et al., eds. Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 19-27.

Description
Surveys stylistic characteristics of KnT including abbreviation, parallel expression, repetition of synonyms, alliteratation, catalogs, similes, and archaisms.

Alternative Title
Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai.
Eigo Eibungaku Kenkyu: Kawai Michio Sensei Taikan Kinen.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Style and versification.