Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Dyck, E. F.
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 20 (1986): 169-82.
- Description
- The three Aristotelian modes of persuasion are ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (reason). In his long poem, Chaucer fails as narrator-rhetor (ethos, logos) but succeeds as human (pathos) and is himself a rhetorical solution to a rhetorical problem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.