The Rhetoric of the Body: A Study of Body Imagery and Rhetorical Structure in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Leech, Mary Elizabeth.
The Rhetoric of the Body: A Study of Body Imagery and Rhetorical Structure in Medieval Literature
- Published
- DAI 63 : 2536A, 2003.
- Description
- Leech attempts to formulate a context for understanding medieval body images, using Rolle, Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Kempe along with Chaucer. Chapter 5 considers KnT, GP, WBT, and ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.