Personality and Styles of Affect in the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Taavitsainen, Irma.

Title
Personality and Styles of Affect in the Canterbury Tales

Published
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 218-34.

Description
Pragmatic analysis of linguistic features that produce "personal affect" in several of the CT. Uses features such as exclamations, oaths, and aspects of proximity and reader involvement to describe characterizations of the Knight, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and the Miller.

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Style and Versification.
Knight and His Tale.
Miller and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.