Rhetoric in Chaucer: Chaucer's Realization of Himself as Rhetor
- Author / Editor
- Payne, Robert O.
Rhetoric in Chaucer: Chaucer's Realization of Himself as Rhetor
- Published
- Jame J. Murphy, ed. Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), pp. 270-87.
- Description
- When Chaucer looked at old books, he not only saw the decorous verbal projections of medieval rhetorical archetypes, he heard the voice of a man like and unlike himself. The idea/language model which "rhetorica"-turned-"poetria" had generated became again something like the speaker/language/audience model of earlier rhetoric.
- Contributor
- Murphy, James J.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Background and General Criticism.