Some Types of Narrative in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Schaar, Claes.
Some Types of Narrative in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Published
- Lund: Gleerup; Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1954
- Physical Description
- 293 pp.
- Series
- Lund Studies in English, no. 25.
- Description
- Categorizes ways in which Chaucer describes "sequences of events" or actions in his poetry, identifying types that include "summary," "contrasting summary," "close chronological narrative," and "loose chronological narrative." Describes the "stylistic character" of each type and compares Chaucer's habits with those of his source materials. Comments on relations between genre and narrative type, and drawing examples from throughout Chaucer's poetic corpus, observes patterns of usage and assesses aesthetic effects.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations