Chaucer's Historical Present: Its Meaning and Uses.
- Author / Editor
- Benson L[arry] D.
Chaucer's Historical Present: Its Meaning and Uses.
- Published
- English Studies 42 (1961): 65-77.
- Description
- Explores the "stylistic rationale" for Chaucer's uses of the historical present tense, identifying the fundamental "connotation of continuing action" of the grammatical form, and assessing its rhetorical, semantic, and tonal effects in various Chaucerian contexts. Draws examples from throughout Chaucer's corpus, observing 1,345 uses of the verb tense and discussing in them groups.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification