Computer-Assisted Study of Chaucer's Metre
- Author / Editor
- Solopova, Elizabeth.
Computer-Assisted Study of Chaucer's Metre
- Published
- Parergon 18.1: 157-79, 2000.
- Description
- Discusses meter, rhythm, and textual problems in Chaucer's iambic pentameter, analyzing them using text-analysis computer applications: Oxford Concordance Program and WordSmith Tools. Texts of GP and WBP from the Hengwrt manuscript are transcribed using a numerical transcription system. Data about rhythm and phraseology provide evidence to support editorial choices.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.