'I wol sterve' : Negotiating the Issue of a Lady's Consent in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Rudanko, Juhani.
'I wol sterve' : Negotiating the Issue of a Lady's Consent in Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5.1 (2004): 137-58
- Description
- As speech acts, threats are usually both conditional and commisive; i.e., they depend on an inferred promise, and they commit the speaker to some future course of action. Threats in Chaucer's works are usually modulated by the additional element of playfulness. Rudanko examines the presentation of threat in wooing scenes from PF, KnT, MilT, and TC, arguing that coercive wooing often depends on the threat of the speaker's own death, modulated by some degree of playfulness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.