A Rhetorical Legacy: The Art of Memory's Place in Literature and Semiotics

Author / Editor
Halford, Donna Allard.

Title
A Rhetorical Legacy: The Art of Memory's Place in Literature and Semiotics

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 547A.

Description
Of the five parts of classical rhetoric, "memoria" (including semiotics) has been insufficiently recognized. Chaucer's dream visions reveal interaction of memory and invention; "memoria" is also significant in Renaissance and Romantic poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.