Chaucer's "Clumsy Transition" in the Pardoner's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Osselton, N. E.
Chaucer's "Clumsy Transition" in the Pardoner's Tale.
- Published
- English Studies 49 (1968): 36-38.
- Description
- Describes Chaucer's use of "Thise" in PardT 6.661 as a marker of stylistic transition--from the "rhetorical tirade" about sins to the "more intimate and often colloquial" tale of the rioters. The usage anticipates modern English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Language and Word Studies