The Therapy of Epideictic Discourse in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess': Study of a Rhetorical Event
- Author / Editor
- DiLorenzo, Raymond Douglas.
The Therapy of Epideictic Discourse in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess': Study of a Rhetorical Event
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 1521A-22A.
- Description
- BD displays the process of consolation as emotional change effected through the medium of epideictic discourse. In the act of speaking, the grieved knight apprehends the cause of his grief in a new way, and is consoled.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.