A Rhetoric of Irony
- Author / Editor
- Booth, Wayne C.
A Rhetoric of Irony
- Published
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
- Physical Description
- xv, 292 pp.
- Description
- Anatomizes irony as a literary device. Includes one example from Chaucer: details of the Monk's description (GP 1.177-82) describing it as straightforward irony that is stable, covert, and local, "firm as a rock" when "discovered by the proper reader."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale