Chaucer and the Rhetoric of the Body
- Author / Editor
- Gallacher, Patrick J.
Chaucer and the Rhetoric of the Body
- Published
- Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 216-36.
- Description
- Chaucer's system of corporeal signs and gestures suggests a continual praise and blame of the flesh. Movement (or lack thereof) in CT is associated with sickness and health; the body is treated as subject and object, as an "affective medium of values," and as "naturalistic and exemplary."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.