Chaucer's Style

Author / Editor
Cannon, Christopher.

Title
Chaucer's Style

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 233-50.

Description
Though traditional at root, Chaucer's diction, syntax, and rhetoric are made fresh by the poet's careful combination and articulation of traditional features. Doubleness (as in mixed styles, ambiguity, and irony) is characteristic of his style and a means to "generate dynamism in language."

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.