Diverse Melodies in Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Higdon, David Leon.
Diverse Melodies in Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Criticism 14 (1972): 97-108.
- Description
- Gauges the implications of the wide range of musical images in GP, exploring the exegetical roots of Chaucer's uses of these images, and assessing concord, discord, and silence as indicators of moral approval or censure. Chaucer's uses are not reductionist, but instead "Gothic" in their intricate variety.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales