Rhetorical Perspectives in the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Morgan, Gerald.
Rhetorical Perspectives in the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- English Studies 62 (1981): 411-22.
- Description
- The portraits of GP, which depict types, belong to the tradition of rhetorical description, not of satire. Epideictic rhetoric provides for representation of virtue and vice alike and aims at the unity of perspective that we find in the descriptions of the pilgrims. It still accommodates irony, as in the presentation of the Prioress.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.