Donaldson and Irony

Author / Editor
Lawton, David.

Title
Donaldson and Irony

Published
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 231-39.

Description
"Working within and yet exploding New Critical terminology," E. Talbot Donaldson's studies of Chaucer's irony--exemplified in his writing on Criseyde--are grounded in his deep understanding of rhetoric. They anticipate Linda Hutcheon's theory of irony, in which "the said and the unsaid simultaneously make up the ironic meaning."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Troilus and Criseyde.