Chaucer's Art of Portraiture
- Author / Editor
- Parr, Roger P.
Chaucer's Art of Portraiture
- Published
- Studies in Medieval Culture 4 (1974): 428-36.
- Description
- Chaucer's art of characterization is an act of poetic creation rather than the mere use of rhetorical convention. By employing rhetorical devices which vivify emotion and intensify dramatic action, or which infuse suggestion of movement, Chaucer subordinates technique to artistic vision and releases narrative art from static rhetorical conventions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.