Ironic Tones of Voice in the General Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Chickering, Howell D.
Ironic Tones of Voice in the General Prologue
- Published
- Nicolay Yakovlev, ed. Lecture Series (St. Petersburg: Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg, 2003), pp. 20-37. Rpt. from Yazyk i rechevaya deyatet'nost' (Language and Language Behavior) 4 (2001): Supplement.
- Description
- Close reading of several GP descriptions (including the Knight, Monk, Clerk, Sergeant at Law, and Summoner) shows how Chaucer's shifting tones produce ironic implications.
- Alternative Title
- Lecture Series. St. Petersburg: Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.