X-Raying Chaucer: Pointing the Way.
- Author / Editor
- Clark, Roy Peter.
X-Raying Chaucer: Pointing the Way.
- Published
- In The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), pp. 149-59.
- Description
- Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that "builds to a main clause near its end," describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor in GP 1–18 and in the opening of Dickens's "Bleak House." Closes with several "Lessons" for creative writers derived from the reading.
- Alternative Title
- The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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