The Rule and the Norm: Halle and Keyser on Chaucer's Meter
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, W. K.
The Rule and the Norm: Halle and Keyser on Chaucer's Meter
- Published
- College English 31 (1970): 774-88.
- Description
- Challenges Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser's theory of Chaucer's iambic pentameter (particularly their application of the notion of "stress-maximum"), and poses a theoretical distinction between "norms" and "rules" in discussing prosodic practice, especially as modified by actual reading performance. Reprinted with a "Discussion of Wimsatt's Paper" by various unnamed commentators in Seymour Chatman, ed. Literary Style: A Symposium (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 197-220.
- Contributor
- Chatman, Seymour, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Style: A Symposium.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification