Chaucer's Silent Discourse.
- Author / Editor
- Trigg, Stephanie.
Chaucer's Silent Discourse.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 33-56.
- Description
- Studies the :speaking face" depicted in Chaucer's works (TC, Buk, BD, and ClT), discussing the trope as a subset of facial expression in the history of emotions. The first writer in English to do so, Chaucer has his characters and narrators translate facial discourse into speech and thereby show us "how we can make emotional and cognitive connections with each other." Comments on the history of the trope in Boccaccio and Machaut, and explores the dialects and registers of silent speaking.
- Alternative Title
- The Biennial Chaucer Lecture. The New Chaucer Society Twentieth International Congress, July 11–14, 2016, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
Envoy to Bukton
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations