Chaucer and the Rhetorical Limits of Exemplary Literature
- Author / Editor
- Youmans, Karen DeMent.
Chaucer and the Rhetorical Limits of Exemplary Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1549-50A, 1999.
- Description
- Chaucer's approaches to hagiography vary from ironic distancing in LGW to pious orthodoxy in SNT, preventing audience identification. Also treats Criseyde, Alisoun, and Dorigen. Griselda, a special case, is historicized and then dehistoricized.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Troilus and Criseyde.