The Long and the Short of It: Teaching Chaucer's Verbal Music

Author / Editor
Baragona, Alan.

Title
The Long and the Short of It: Teaching Chaucer's Verbal Music

Published
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 117-34.

Description
Students of Chaucer's poetry can easily appreciate its sounds and syntactical patterns, and should examine for themselves issues such as the pronunciation of final -e. Prosodic analysis can also be applied to translated versions of Chaucer. Live performances and recordings as well as attentive readings can help to replicate the Chaucerian "soundscape."

Alternative Title
Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies