Chaucer et l'allitération
- Author / Editor
- Dauby, Hélène.
Chaucer et l'allitération
- 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. 133-42.
- Series
- GRENDEL, no 3.
- Description
- Alliteration, not infrequent in Chaucer, fulfils several functions. It is mimetic in the description of battles (KnT) and the harmony of the spheres (TC); metrical, when binding two parts of a line or several lines together (BD); and syntactic: except in Mel, proverbial comparisons are presented as alliterating binomial syntagms. Chaucer's handling of alliteration is as varied and supple as Shakespeare's.
- 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
- Style and Versification.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Tale of Melibee.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Troilus and Criseyde.