Chaucer and the Elusion of Clarity.
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot
Chaucer and the Elusion of Clarity.
- Published
- T. S. Dorsch, ed. Essays and Studies 1972: In Honour of Beatrice White. Being Volume Twenty-Five of the New Series Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (London: John Murray; New York: Humanities, 1972), pp. 23-44.
- Series
- Essays and Studies, no. 25.
- Description
- Explores "two related but distinct aspects of Chaucer's celebrated stylistic clarity": 1) while "self-evident," it is "often more apparent than real," and 2) a "means by which" Chaucer "escapes dexterously from the danger of really being clear and from the pursuit of critics." Focuses on ambiguities of characterizations in GP and, much more extensively, those of TC, commenting on the narrators' hesitations, hedges, qualifiers, etc., along with juxtapositions, rhetorical questions, and contradictions. Closes with comments on NPT 7.3251-66.
- Contributor
- Dorsch, T. S. ed.
White, Beatrice
- Alternative Title
- Essays and Studies 1972: In Honour of Beatrice White. Being Volume Twenty-Five of the New Series Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Nun's Priest and His Tale