Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Dyck, E. F.

Title
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.