The Authorial Manipulation of Language in Chaucer's Troilus

Author / Editor
Woehling, Mary-Patrice.

Title
The Authorial Manipulation of Language in Chaucer's Troilus

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 1742A.

Description
By manipulating his presumed sources and through the voices of the narrator and his characters, Chaucer develops reader-response strategy with such rhetorical devices as repetition and wordplay. The reflexive TC shows both love and language as subject to change.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.