Assumptions of Gender: Rhetoric, Devotion, and Character in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Moore, Marilyn L. Reppa.
Assumptions of Gender: Rhetoric, Devotion, and Character in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2644A.
- Description
- Rejects psychological characterizations of Troilus and Criseyde, arguing that they are better seen in light of rhetorical and devotional traditions. Associates Troilus with the ethos of petition and devotion and Criseyde with the pathos.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.