'Proprietas' in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas (J.)
'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.