Rhetoric as Therapy: The Man in Black, Dorigen, and Chauntecleer
- Author / Editor
- Manning, Stephen.
Rhetoric as Therapy: The Man in Black, Dorigen, and Chauntecleer
- Published
- Kentucky Philological Association Bulletin 5 (1978): 19-25.
- Description
- Verbal action in Chaucer may take the form of a series of verbal encounters, as in BD; or a long monologue, as Dorigen's is and Chauntecleer's may as well be. Chauntecleer talks himself out of fear of dreams; Dorigen talks herself out of suicide; the Man in Black realizes what White has meant to him; and the Dreamer learns that White is dead. Rhetoric, creating shifting psychic distances, enables therapy to take effect.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.