Rhetoric and Sophistry in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Kokonis, Michael.
Rhetoric and Sophistry in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies (Thessalonika) 1 (1989): 367-99.
- Description
- Reviews recent rhetorical analyses of TC, examining how and how much "rhetoric affects the composition" of TC. Kokonis first reviews the "history and evolution of rhetoric"; then shows how rhetoric became part of "medieval aesthetic tradition," and in particular of the composition of TC; and finally evaluates how Chaucer, "conveying the dominant spirit of his age, employs the dialectical aspects of this art, that is, rhetoric versus sophistry," in TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.