The Influence of Rhetoric on Chaucer's Portraiture
- Author / Editor
- Bickford, Charles Gray.
The Influence of Rhetoric on Chaucer's Portraiture
- Published
- DAI 34.08 (1974): 5091A.
- Description
- Describes the models of verbal portraiture in the "Rhetorica ad Herennium" and works by Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Matthew of Vendôme and their impact on Chaucer, arguing that the portraits of Fortune and Blanche in BD reflect the Black Knight's state of mind; that the portraits of Diomede, Troilus, and Criseyde in TC reflect the "growth of Troilus' character and the decline of Criseyde's"; and that the portrait of Virginia in PhyT indicates the "limitation of the Physician."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Physician and His Tale
- Style and Versification