Modality and Ambiguity in Chaucer's Trewely: With Focus on Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Modality and Ambiguity in Chaucer's Trewely: With Focus on Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Yoko Iyeiri and Margaret Connolly, eds. And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche: Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on His Sixtieth Birthday (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002), pp. 73-94.
- Description
- Nakao tabulates the frequency of epistemic "trewely" in Chaucer's major works and compares its semantic frequency in Chaucer with that in several contemporary poetic texts. Investigates the significance of the modal adverb "trewely" in TC, particularly its role in prompting readers' awareness of Criseyde's untrouthe.
- Alternative Title
- And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche (Tajima).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Troilus and Criseyde.