Causality in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Semantic Tension Between the Pragmatic and Narrative Domains
- Author / Editor
- Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Causality in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Semantic Tension Between the Pragmatic and Narrative Domains
- Published
- Masahiko Kanno, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds. A Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira Wada (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1998), pp. 79-102.
- Description
- Explores the "ambiguity of causality as a measure of the moral status" of the narrator and characters of TC, particularly Criseyde. Nakao tabulates and examines causal phrases beginning with "because," "since," and "for" in light of their contexts and intentions.
- Alternative Title
- Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira Wada .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.