'Heat' in Old English and in Chaucer's Creation of Metaphors of Love
- Author / Editor
- Healey, Antonette diPaolo.
'Heat' in Old English and in Chaucer's Creation of Metaphors of Love
- Published
- Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York; Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 3-18.
- Description
- The semantic field of "heat" includes emotional connotations in Old English, but Chaucer evokes new oxymoronic nuances when he uses it in Troilus's song, TC 1.400-420.
- Alternative Title
- Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Troilus and Criseyde