The Pronouns of Love and Sex: 'Thou' and 'Ye' Among Lovers in The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Caon, Luisella.
The Pronouns of Love and Sex: 'Thou' and 'Ye' Among Lovers in The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- C. C. Barfoot, ed. "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 33-47.
- Description
- Chaucer's uses of thou and ye pronouns "systematically" indicate the "degree of closeness or distance" between lovers in CT, indicating not only formality and informality but also intensity of emotion and shifts in attitudes. Caon surveys previous scholarship and draws examples from WBT, MerT, MilT, RvT, and ShT.
- Contributor
- Barfoot, C. C., ed.
- Alternative Title
- 'And Never Know the Joy': Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Canterbury Tales - General.