Chaucer's 'I Passe'

Author / Editor
Regan, Charles Lionel.

Title
Chaucer's 'I Passe'

Published
Greyfriar 14 (1973): 3-14.

Description
Traces Chaucer's uses of two rhetorical devices of compression throughout his poetic career, "praeterito" and "reticentia," arguing that he developed sophisticated uses of the devices for creating dramatic and emotional effects. The devices entail, respectively, overt "passing over" of a topic and suppression of a topic.

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