Theme and Topic in the 'General Prologue'

Author / Editor
Downing, Angela.

Title
Theme and Topic in the 'General Prologue'

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. 55-76.

Description
Linguistic analysis of Chaucer's syntactical techniques in GP.
Examines Chaucer's methods of introducing and delaying information, suggesting that he may seem familiar to modern readers because his strategies are the same as those used in modern speech.

Alternative Title
Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.