The Phenomenology of "-e."

Author / Editor
Cannon, Christopher.

Title
The Phenomenology of "-e."

Published
Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, eds. The Sound of Writing (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), pp. 215-31.

Description
Considers various conditions of and approaches to pronouncing--or not pronouncing--final "-e" in Chaucer's verse, arguing that "Chaucer’s final "-es" are a subjective quality of his verse, a series of phonological events structured not by metrical or grammatical rule but by the feelings they produce"--a phenomenology of desire. Examines a range of examples with particular attention to “speche” in HF, 766.

Contributor
Justice, Steven, ed

Alternative Title
The Sound of Writing.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies