Rhetoric in Chaucer: Chaucer's Realization of Himself as Rhetor

Author / Editor
Payne, Robert O.

Title
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.