Towards a Rhetoric of Youth: Readings in Augustine and Selected Medieval Narratives
- Author / Editor
- Spearman, Robert Alan.
Towards a Rhetoric of Youth: Readings in Augustine and Selected Medieval Narratives
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4672A.
- Description
- Constructs an Augustinian "rhetoric of youth" to assess the depictions of infancy, childhood, and youth in Boethius's "De consolatione philosophiae," Innocent III's "De miseria condicionis humane," and the "Roman de la rose." Then considers how Chaucer resists this tradition in BD, PF, HF, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- House of Fame.
- Troilus and Criseyde.