Craft in 'The Canterbury Tales': Rhetoric and Survival
- Author / Editor
- Fields, Peter John.
Craft in 'The Canterbury Tales': Rhetoric and Survival
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2821A.
- Description
- Chaucer's use of the word "craft" and its derivations in CT indicate a difference between individuals and the world they want to control.
- For Chaucer's speakers, the craft of knowledge and social custom is not enough. For survival of the self, they must depend on rhetorical craft as well.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Language and Word Studies.