Chaucer at the Edge: Middle English and the Rhetorical Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Chaucer at the Edge: Middle English and the Rhetorical Tradition.
- Published
- Marginalia 19 (2015): 4–15.
- Description
- Plenary lecture positions Chaucer as important to sixteenth-century writers for his incorporation of the Latin rhetorical tradition--particularly the concepts of decorum and Augustine's three levels of style--into English, even as he does so with colorful parody and vernacular panache.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification