Rhetoric and Meaning in 'The House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Kennedy, Thomas C.

Title
Rhetoric and Meaning in 'The House of Fame'

Published
Studia Neophilologica 68 (1996): 9-24.

Description
Considers three rhetorical features of HF (introductory features, "occupatio" and the inexpressibility "topos," and repeated rhyme) to refute John Matthews Manly's view (1926) that Chaucer's early writing lacked originality and that his use of rhetoric was extrinsic to the meaning of his poems.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.