Rhetoric and Early Modern Skepticism and Pragmatism
- Author / Editor
- Ronquist, Eyvind C.
Rhetoric and Early Modern Skepticism and Pragmatism
- Published
- Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies 5 (1995): 49-75.
- Description
- Assesses brief passages from Langland and Chaucer as indications of late-fourteenth-century proto-pragmatism--or reliance on experience and rhetorical argument as epistemological modes. The variegated opinions, unstable exempla, and inconclusive proverbs offered by the two authors connect them with Cicero in the past and Montaigne in the future.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.