Chaucer in His Time
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Chaucer in His Time
- Published
- William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 1-7.
- Description
- Argues that in late medieval English poetry (including Chaucer's) tone is "more likely to be found in the disposition" of rhetorical units larger than individual words and phrases. Draws illustrative examples from CT, TC, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," focusing on the importance of juxtaposition.
- Alternative Title
- New Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification