Argument and Emotion in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Mack, Peter.

Title
Argument and Emotion in Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Scott D. Troyan, ed. Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 109-26.

Description
Mack examines public and private oratory in Book 4 of TC, exploring the emotional emphases that Chaucer adds to Boccaccio and focusing on the relationship between emotion and argument in rhetorical theory. Mack's essay tallies Chaucer's various ways of depicting the "conflict and collaboration between argument and emotion" throughout TC.

Alternative Title
Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.