Chaucer’s Speech and Thought Representation in "Troilus and Criseyde": Encoded Subjectivities and Semantic Extension.

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
Chaucer’s Speech and Thought Representation in "Troilus and Criseyde": Encoded Subjectivities and Semantic Extension.

Published
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 169-91.

Description
Offers a technical linguistic analysis of STR (speech and thought representation) in TC, theorizing a hierarchical "structure of subjectivities" to examine samples from the poem, attending to nuances latent in diction, situation, point of view, manuscript context, editorial intervention, etc. Concludes with comments on the "plasticity" of Chaucer’s STR, the "varying subjectivities that are likely to be encoded" in it, and how they "allow for semantic extension."

Alternative Title
Polyphony and the Modern

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification