Rhetoric and Poetry in the 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Stephen
Rhetoric and Poetry in the 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 14-30.
- Description
- Assesses the styles and rhetorical devices of FranT. Matching rhetoric to meaning, Chaucer's "modulation of style" in FranT helps to characterize the narrator and the major characters of the Tale and to guide readers' understanding of the variable seriousness and comedy of its plot. Compares the narrator's style with that of Shakespeare's Polonius.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Style and Versification
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations