The Demonstrative Adjective "This": Chaucer's Use of a Colloquial Narrative Device.

Author / Editor
Novelli, Cornelius.

Title
The Demonstrative Adjective "This": Chaucer's Use of a Colloquial Narrative Device.

Published
Mediaeval Studies 19 (1957): 246-49.

Description
Focuses on Chaucer's uses of "this" to "create narrative tone and dramatic meaning" in CT, discussing a variety of examples and exploring metrical, rhetorical, and syntactic features as they help in characterization. Includes comments on the six uses of "this Pandarus" in TC, and suggests that in CT the device helps to keep the tales' narrators "unobtrusively in the reader's consciousness."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versifciation
Language and Word Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Troilus and Criseyde