Argument and Emotion in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Mack, Peter.
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.