Imprecise Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Ransom, Daniel J.
Imprecise Chaucer
- Published
- Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 376-99.
- Description
- An examination of Chaucer's use of temporal terminology--from references to "eternity and perpetuity" to references to seconds and moments, including seasons, days, nights, and hours--suggests that he uses such terminology with a modicum of "nonchalance." This inexact use of temporal vocabulary "subordinates science to literary aims."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies