Chaucer's Use of Rhetoric in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Koretsky, Allen Curtis.

Title
Chaucer's Use of Rhetoric in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.11 (1968): 4634A.

Description
Shows how Chaucer adapted Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in TC by increasing the density and variety of rhetorical figures, thereby "embellishing" the verse, altering characterization, transforming narrative perspective. and increasing irony. Includes an "index of some major rhetorical figures" in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations