Flying Sources : Classical Authority in Chaucer's Squire's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Berry, Craig A.
Flying Sources : Classical Authority in Chaucer's Squire's Tale
- Published
- English Literary History 68: 287-313, 2001.
- Description
- Chaucer enhances the rhetorical authority of SqT by following classical authorities, using figures such as Pegasus, the Trojan horse, and Sinon's persuasive deception as models and figures for the poem's rhetorical operation. Chaucer understood and applied the methods of his "auctores" for asserting literary authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.