What He Heard and What He Saw : Past Tenses and Characterization in Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Greenwood, Maria K.
What He Heard and What He Saw : Past Tenses and Characterization in Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 143-62.
- Series
- GRENDEL, no. 3.
- Description
- Explicates Chaucer's uses of grammatical tenses in GP, especially in the descriptions of the Knight, Squire, and Yeoman, distinguishing how various tenses and narrative points of view direct readers' reactions to the pilgrims. Considers indirect discourse, free indirect discourse, datable and undatable simple present (I am, I do), datable and undatable present perfect (I have done, I have been), and precise and vague dated past (I did in 1400, I did once), etc.
- Contributor
- Stévanovitch, Colette,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.