Chaucer and Medieval Preaching: Rhetoric for Listeners in Sermons and Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Volk-Birke, Sabine.
Chaucer and Medieval Preaching: Rhetoric for Listeners in Sermons and Poetry
- Published
- Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1991.
- Physical Description
- 315 pp.
- Series
- ScriptOralia, no. 34.
- Description
- Examines the imagery, formulas, structure, and audience appeal of a number of Middle English sermons and sermon cycles, exploring their influence on Chaucer in Mel, ParsT, PardT, and NPT. The aural element of sermons is reflected in Chaucer's poems; stylistic features are reflected in his irony, parody, and satire. His treatments of sermon materials reflect his experiments between sermons and literature, religion and art.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General.