'Now She Understood': Free Indirect Discourse and Its Effects

Author / Editor
Dahlberg, Mary Margaret.

Title
'Now She Understood': Free Indirect Discourse and Its Effects

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 155A.

Description
Free indirect discourse appears in TC and in works by John Lyly and George Gascoigne primarily for dramatic effects. Multiple voices in free indirect discourse may also mimic, distance, and achieve irony, as in many novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.