When Rhymes Go Bad: Recontextualizing Chaucer's Rhymes with the Mid Front Long Vowels
- Author / Editor
- Rusch, Willard J.
When Rhymes Go Bad: Recontextualizing Chaucer's Rhymes with the Mid Front Long Vowels
- Published
- American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 6 (1994): 1-50.
- Description
- Studies of Chaucer's rhymes have traditionally assumed that textual criticism and historical phonology together could recover lost information about the pronunciation of his verse. The rhymes, however, possess their own unique written properties. Rusch notes connections between the traditional view and Derrida's critique of spoken versus written language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.