Gothic Rhetoric in Edifices of Word and Stone
- Author / Editor
- Jordan, Robert M.
Gothic Rhetoric in Edifices of Word and Stone
- Published
- Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 96-107.
- Description
- Gothic aesthetic combines opposing propensities for regularity and embellishment. These features are manifest in Dante's Commedia, while CT is more irregular and improvisatory.
- Alternative Title
- Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.