Problems in Chaucer's Description of Women

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
Problems in Chaucer's Description of Women

Published
Earl Miner, ed. English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1972), pp. 3-18.

Description
Comments on Chaucer's formal descriptions of women in Rom, BD, RvT, and MilT, focusing on his uses of rhetorical conventions, Continental models, and native English alliterative phrases and vocabulary.

Contributor
Miner, Earl, ed.

Alternative Title
English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Romaunt of the Rose
Book of the Duchess
Reeve and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies