Narrative Patterns of Affect in Four Genres of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Taavitsainen, Irma.
Narrative Patterns of Affect in Four Genres of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 191-210.
- Description
- Chaucer uses interjections and exclamations as a means of audience involvement, promoting dramatic suspense in his works. Certain words are so closely associated with certain genres that when Chaucer uses them in another context, they echo the original text. Chaucer often manipulates this technique for comic or ironic effect.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Language and Word Studies.