Chaucer and Pronominatio
- Author / Editor
- Holton, Amanda.
Chaucer and Pronominatio
- Published
- Reading Medieval Studies 33 (2007): 69-86.
- Description
- Holton argues that Chaucer generally prefers direct naming techniques, but he recurrently uses "pronominatio" (i.e., epithets and related circumlocutions) when relying on Virgil as a source in HF and LGW. Also shows how Chaucer exploits the negative possibilities of "pronominatio" in TC and PrT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- House of Fame
- Legend of Good Women
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Prioress and Her Tale