Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer's Poetry

Author / Editor
Camargo, Martin.

Title
Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer's Poetry

Published
Scott D. Troyan, ed. Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (New York and London: Routldge, 2004), pp. 91-107.

Description
Camargo explores how time functions rhetorically in Chaucer's works, discussing duration as a feature of style (amplification and abbreviation), time as an attribute of action (time as cause) and person (time of birth as character), and several examples of specious argument from opportunity. Draws examples from CT and TC.

Alternative Title
Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Canterbury Tales--General.
Troilus and Criseyde.