'Proprietas' in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Wurtele, Douglas (J.)

Title
'Proprietas' in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Neophilologus 60 (1976): 577-93.

Description
Chaucer uses the art of "proprietas" or decorum when he makes the language and substance of MLT conform to his personality and vocation. The narrator subscribes to Quintillian and Ciceronian theories of rhetoric and employs the techniques of "ratiocinatio," "exclamatio," and "apostrophatio" to tell his story

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.