Vision, Pilgrimage, and Rhetorical Composition
- Author / Editor
- Jordan, Robert M.
Vision, Pilgrimage, and Rhetorical Composition
- Published
- Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 195-200.
- Description
- Like modern theorists, Chaucer is concerned with language as a reliable vehicle to account for reality, as in HF, ManT, TC,Ret. The pilgrim narrator shifts in viewpoint and style; Chaucer exploits the gap between language and reality, as in TC, LGW, CT.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.