Modern Features in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto
Modern Features in Chaucer
- Published
- Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 175-82.
- Description
- Outlines the aspects of Chaucer's works that are usually regarded as characteristic of twentieth-century British modernism: innovation and convention-breaking, fusion of genres, colloquial idioms, metrical license, dramatic monologue, poetic self-consciouness, and a number of specific themes, including the complexity of personal relations, continuity with European culture, and continuity with the past.
- Alternative Title
- Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.