'Canterbury Tales' 'Rethors': The Knight

Author / Editor
Andersen, Wallis May.

Title
'Canterbury Tales' 'Rethors': The Knight

Published
Fifteenth-Century Studies 10 (1984): 1-14.

Description
Nineteen of the tales are concerned with poetry, style, genre. In KnT the Knight uses four rhetorical conventions--"occupatio," "brevitas" formula, "digressio," and "descriptio"--but the Knight is a flawed rhetorician-storyteller.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.