Chaucer - A Modern Writer?
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Stephen.
Chaucer - A Modern Writer?
- Published
- Balcony: The Sidney Review 2.2 (1965): 37-43.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's sensory detail in his GP descriptions "rings a bell in our mind": we recognize these descriptions as modern for their emphasis on individuation rather than typicality. Attributes this technique to the rise of late-medieval nominalism, outlining its development and surmising how and to what extent Chaucer may have been familiar with it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification