What Comes After Chaucer's 'But': Adversative Constructions in Spenser
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, Judith H.
What Comes After Chaucer's 'But': Adversative Constructions in Spenser
- Published
- Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 105-18.
- Description
- Close reading of the uses of the conjunction "but" as an "illogical adversative" in Spenser's Proem to Book 6 of "The Faerie Queene," compared and contrasted with Chaucer's related uses in his GP. Generally, Chaucer's usage "serves narrative realism," while Spenser's "serves a realism that is essentially conceptual," although the latter is too reductionist because both poets use to various effects the "techniques and devices of duplicity."
- Alternative Title
- Acts of Interpretation
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Style and Versification
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Language and Word Studies