"Pronomination" in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, John.
"Pronomination" in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.
- Published
- Medium Aevum 87.1 (2018): 142-50.
- Description
- Defines "pronominatio" and traces its background in medieval rhetorical handbooks; then surveys instances in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton, analyzing individual uses that convey either praise or censure given to characters by associating them with classical or biblical exemplars. For example, Chaucer's Troilus is "Ector the secounde" (TC, I2.158), the mother in PrT a "newe Rachel" (7.627), etc.
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