Chaucer's Apostrophic Mode in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Nist, John.
Chaucer's Apostrophic Mode in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Tennessee Studies in Literature 15 (1970): 85-98.
- Description
- Discusses apostrophe as speech (or writing) that is "'overheard' rather than merely heard," assessing it as a "powerful esthetic instrument for plumbing the emotional and emotive depths" of literary characters through "overheardedness." Comments on examples of apostrophe in CT, with particular attention to KnT, WBP, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, PrT, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Style and Versification
- Knight and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale