Rhetoric, Romance and the Structure of Authority in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Haas, Kurtis Boyd.

Title
Rhetoric, Romance and the Structure of Authority in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2970A.

Description
Unlike other authors of chivalric romance of his time, Chaucer manipulates medieval theories of rhetoric to reveal how the relations of authority and discourse define both the pilgrim narrators and the characters in their tales. Treats WBPT, KnT, SqT, FranT, and Th.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.