Ironic Tones of Voice in the General Prologue

Author / Editor
Chickering, Howell D.

Title
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.