'Whereas a Man May Have Noon Audience, Noght Helpeth It to Tellen His Sentence': Rhetorical Process in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Corman, Catherine Talmage.
'Whereas a Man May Have Noon Audience, Noght Helpeth It to Tellen His Sentence': Rhetorical Process in Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1986): 173A.
- Description
- Drawing on sources in rhetoric and preaching, Chaucer saw rhetoric "not merely as a collection of stylistic figures, but as a process defined by the interaction between a speaker, his words,...and the audience." He made the audience "active participants in the rhetorical process," simultaneously engaged and detached. Compares Chaucer's manipulation of audience in BD, HF, and PF to Dante's in the "Commedia" and to de Lorris and de Meun's in "Roman de la Rose."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.