Chaucer's 'Gentil' with a Focus on Its Modal Implication

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
Chaucer's 'Gentil' with a Focus on Its Modal Implication

Published
Jacek Fisiak and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds. Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 321-45.

Description
Nakao examines uses of gentil in TC, MerT, and FranT, gauging the level of subjectivity involved on the part of the character, the narrator, and/or the author, modified by the audience's subjective understanding. Poses a "double-prism" structure through which such evaluative terms gain valence.

Alternative Title
Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Merchant and His Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.