The Creation of 'Tone' in Chaucer's Poetic Lines: A Tentative Study on Chaucer's Emotive Language

Author / Editor
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.

Title
The Creation of 'Tone' in Chaucer's Poetic Lines: A Tentative Study on Chaucer's Emotive Language

Published
Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities (Kumamoto University) 104 (2013): 41-60.

Description
Contends that the uniqueness of Chaucer's poetry lies in the combination of emotive theme and manipulation of "tone." Classifies "tone-elevators" and compares their effects between different genres of Chaucerian texts as well as between Chaucerian and non-Chaucerian romances. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies